[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 82436] Re: wesnoth-all meta-package request (for gnome-app-install)

[Gerfried Fuchs]

        Hi!

* Chauncellor <brettcornwall at gmail.com> [2009-09-19 18:38:30 CEST]:
> As of Jaunty, this is still a problem.

 Erm, is not?

> >From the description of gnome-app-install:
> 
> "Please note that this package recommends only three of the official
> campaigns, those that are considered to be an introduction to the game.
> They are just recommended but not depended on - quite some people enjoy
> the multiplayer mode for which they aren't needed. If you want to have
> all the official campaigns installed you are encouraged to install
> wesnoth."

 You are looking at the package description of wesnoth-core, *not* of
wesnoth in jaunty:

<http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/wesnoth>
vs.
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/wesnoth-core>

> Firstly, this description is easy to miss. I and another person have
> missed this description. Secondly, the packages set to install do not
> include critical components such as music.

 I am not really sure why you call the music a "critical" component, it
isn't needed at all? It is nice to have of course, but "critical" is
something completely different.

> Users should not be expected to hunt around to get the game they want
> to work working.

 ... and they aren't anymore since the jaunty release because jaunty
comes with the complete suite (minus the server) when installing the
wesnoth package.

 Or does gnome-app-install only offer wesnoth-core for installation but
not wesnoth itself? I'm not on an ubuntu system myself so I can't check
that part.

 Thanks anyway!
Rhonda

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wesnoth-all meta-package request (for gnome-app-install)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82436
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Status in The gnome application installer: Confirmed
Status in “wesnoth” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “wesnoth” package in Debian: Fix Released

Bug description:
New users of Linux/Ubuntu will see gnome-app-install and simply assume that is how you get a program installed.
Currently when you install "wesnoth" you get no music and no campaigns this makes the package almost useless.

My spec as such is for a meta-package called wesnoth-all which would install wesnoth along with all of it's extra packages for inclusion into gnome-app-install.
This means then that new users need only use this package and have a game ready to rock straight away.