[aur-general] Merge request: aquaria-hib-git -> aquaria-git
Bartłomiej Piotrowski
b at bpiotrowski.pl
Sun Jun 23 03:44:49 EDT 2013
On 2013-06-22 18:06, Sam S. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please merge
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aquaria-hib-git/
> into
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aquaria-git/
> ?
>
> I'm the submitter and maintainer of both packages.
>
> Reasoning:
>
> Currently, aquaria-hib-git takes the proprietary Aquaria game data
> from the Humble Bundle archive, but replaces some game files and the
> executable with an improved GPL version compiled from git.
> Thanks to recent upstream changes to the GPL executable, it has now
> become possible to separate out the installation of the proprietary
> game files into their own package ("aquaria-data-hib"). What remains
> of "aquaria-hib-git" should be called "aquaria-git" to reflect this,
> so I have re-uploaded it under this new name.
> Benefits include:
>
> - proprietary and GPL stuff is no longer mixed in the same package
> - no need for users to supply the Humble Bundle game archive again,
> each time they install a new version of the executable
> - in the future, "aquaria-data-hib" could be complemented by drop-in
> alternatives like "aquaria-data-steam", "aquaria-data-demo", ...
>
> Thanks!
>
Done, thank you.
--
Bartłomiej Piotrowski
http://bpiotrowski.pl/
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