[SCM] DarkPlaces, a Quake engine branch, master, updated. upstream/0_20110628+svn11231-4-gd0c3afc

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Sun Jul 10 08:00:54 UTC 2011


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit d0c3afc3822ec3a33e8dae0f2a4d6b667edc270b
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 10 09:00:51 2011 +0100

    Adjust descriptions

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 9a96861..0053a92 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -26,38 +26,34 @@ Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: Game engine for Quake and similar 3D first person shooter games
- DarkPlaces is an OpenGL-only engine for Quake and related games, with
- greatly enhanced effects and lighting and many features for mods.
- It can be used to play various games based on that engine, such as
+ DarkPlaces is a graphically-intensive engine for Quake and related games, with
+ improved visual effects and lighting and many features for mods.
+ It can be used to play various games based on the Quake engine, such as
  Nexuiz, OpenQuartz, and Quake itself.
  .
  This is the client version of the engine, with a SDL GUI.
  .
- This package alone isn't of any use; to get a playable game, install
- nexuiz or another suitable set of game data.
- .
- This engine is typically used via a script that launches it with a
- particular data set, such as the one found in the "quake" package.
- .
- (The nexuiz package currently contains its own version of DarkPlaces,
- but in future it will depend on this package for the engine.)
+ This engine isn't useful without game data: to get a playable game, install
+ nexuiz or another suitable set of game data. It is typically used via a
+ script that launches it with a particular data set, such as the ones
+ found in the "quake" and "nexuiz" packages.
 
 Package: darkplaces-server
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: Standalone server for Quake-based games
- DarkPlaces is an OpenGL-only engine for Quake and related games, with
- greatly enhanced effects and lighting and many features for mods.
- This package installs the dedicated server version, which can be used
- to serve various games based on that engine, such as Nexuiz, OpenQuartz,
- and Quake itself.
+ DarkPlaces is a graphically-intensive engine for Quake and related games, with
+ improved visual effects and lighting and many features for mods.
+ It can be used to play various games based on the Quake engine, such as
+ Nexuiz, OpenQuartz, and Quake itself.
  .
- This package alone isn't of any use; to get a usable server, install
- nexuiz-server or another suitable set of server data.
+ This is the dedicated server version, with no GUI.
  .
- (The nexiuz-server package currently contains its own version of DarkPlaces,
- but in future it will depend on this package for the engine.)
+ This engine isn't useful without game data: to get a usable server, install
+ nexuiz or another suitable set of game data. It is typically used via a
+ script that launches it with a particular data set, such as the ones
+ found in the "quake-server" and "nexuiz-server" packages.
 
 Package: darkplaces-dbg
 Architecture: any

-- 
DarkPlaces, a Quake engine



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