[aur-general] mupen64plus distribution collaboration

[Daenyth Blank]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:28, Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>> Note the comment about the yasm dependency.  It appears this is a
>> hangover from older mupen64plus versions that did require it (my
>> bad...).  When you rebuild to remove that, you will obviously need the
>> build fix patches from the Debian patch tracker (glibc2.10, as-needed)
>> and I would also include the ones to build against the system libraries.
> I would recommend to take patches from my git repo[3] as the patch tracker is
> (for unknown reasons) complete outdated.
>
> I think he meant following patches:
>  * as-needed.patch
>  * ftbfs-glibc210.patch
>  * system-libbz2.patch
>  * system-liblzma.patch
>  * system-libpng.patch
>  * system-zlib.patch
>
> Fixes of crashes and glitches:
>  * fix-7z-subfolder.patch
>  * fix_readpng.patch
>  * gtk-open-filter.patch
>  * jttl_fix_romclosed.patch
>  * rice-screenflickering.patch
>  * rice-texturepack-crash.patch
>  * version-string.patch
>
> Experimental patches are:
>  * xdg-basedir.patch
>  * noexecstack.patch
>
> Mostly debian specific (or on architectures you don't support):
>  * dejavu-font.patch
>  * default-optimisations.patch
>  * destdir.patch
>  * fix-desktop-file.patch
>  * ftbfs-kfreebsd.patch
>  * ftbfs-dynarec.patch
>  * debian-archs.patch
>  * glide64-noasm.patch
>  * plugin-searchpath.patch
>  * remove-gln64.patch
>  * remove-nondfsg-icons.patch
>  * static-binutils-libs.patch
>
> Only debugger related (not activated on Arch)
>  * ftbfs-debugger.patch
>  * rice_nodebug.patch
>
> There is also a glitch which prevents the correctness of the pure interpreter
> (haven't checked yet the interpreter and recompiler) submitted upstream as bug
> 272. Maybe you have an idea for bug 51. I am digging a little bit around but
> without any real success - only got a hack which can be used to open the gate
> and then restart the game with a non-hacked version of mupen64plus.
>
> Before I forget: When you change the PKGBUILD - can you please change the
> maintainer field? I just send Allan McRae that mail because he was marked as
> maintainer of that package.
>
> Best regards,
>        Sven
>
>> [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/mupen64plus.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches
>

I don't really know.. To be honest I don't actually use the software
actively, and I wouldn't know where to begin with selecting how/if it
should be patched. Maybe another TU would like to take over the
package from me?