performous does not include content (songs, ...)

[Michael Nagel]

Binary package hint: performous

performous does not include any game content (i.e. songs, ...) and is thus quite unusable after installation.
there should be packages for at least the free songs listed at http://performous.org/songs.html and these packages should be required or recommended/suggested by performous.

the documentation concerning "you first need to get some songs before using performous" should be improved!

[Lasse Kärkkäinen (tronic+mb48)]

The only songs that Debian (and thus Ubuntu) could ship are the ones of the libre package. We prefer the users being told to go online where we offer downloads to a lot of songs rather than having three songs preinstalled (in which case the message telling to go online is not displayed).

Does this answer your concerns?

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

i would prefer if was possible to install a somewhat usable setup from within debian/ubuntu -- including song and thus packaging the available songs (even if it were only the libre ones).

users would still be wondering how they could add "their" songs and be in the same position as the are now (except for the mentioned message). plus having the BIG advantage of already having something "minimally useful". if the missing message is a big problem then create a patch that displays that message if there are less than ten songs.

and maybe include some information in the manpage.

[Lasse Kärkkäinen (tronic+mb48)]

We are planning an in-game downloader that would make getting the songs (also non-free) easy.

[Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos)]

Fixed by Debian sync