[needs-packaging] 0. A.D

[Mankeys]

0 A.D. is a historical real-time strategy open source game, published by Wildfire Games. It will focus on the years between 500 BC and 500 AD. 0 A.D. will be released in two parts: the first will cover the 500 BC–1 BC period, and the second will span 1 AD to 500 AD. It has been in development since 2000, with actual work on the game starting in 2003. The game aims to be entirely free and open source. In addition, the developers do not get paid for their work, nor will they charge for their product. When the game is finished, it will be available for download on the internet. Developers confirmed releasing of the project as open source.

http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/
http://os.wildfiregames.com/

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Looks like the bugs which prevented it to run from a non writable directory have been fixed.

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/458
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/459

It is worth a try.

[Philip Taylor (excors)]

I'd recommend waiting a week or two before releasing a package - I'm currently working on tidying up a few issues with the code (now just minor things that shouldn't affect the packaging process much) and will set up a proper downloadable source/data release very soon, which will hopefully work better than a random SVN snapshot, and it'd be great to have that version packaged.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

there is a report about packaging it for official ubuntu repos, too at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/498462
should these reports be merged?

[Kristjan SCHMIDT (kristjan-eo)]

imho jes. it seems to me the same.

[Philip Taylor (excors)]

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions#Obtainingthelatestrelease has downloadable tarballs which fix the issues I was aware of. (That page also has some rough guidance for making packages). If nobody reports major problems in the next few days, we'll probably announce this as the first non-SVN release version (and then hopefully make more regular releases after that).

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

I successfully compiled and tested the game.

It is ready for publishing. But we are still in an update freeze until we got the new server.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

What I find a bit odd is that I cannot choose a profile.

Is this a bug ?

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

Instructions on creating 0ad linux packages are here:
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions#CreatingLinuxpackages

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Oibaf (oibaf)]

> What I find a bit odd is that I cannot choose a profile.
> Is this a bug ?

Profiles have been removed in current svn:
http://trac.wildfiregames.com/changeset/7415

[Philip Taylor (excors)]

http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/LatestRelease has a new version (r7419), which is likely to be the last snapshot for the near feature. (It cleans up the main menu a bit, and hopefully shouldn't affect anything else.)

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Ok, the drop down menu for the profile has been removed as I see.

And the only activated menu is the single player menu.

[Mankeys (mankeys)]

There is an interesting news: Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of a pre-alpha version of 0 A.D. (...) http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Taking 0ad 0.0.0+r07413~pre-alpha-1~getdeb2 as starting point.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Package has been built for karmic.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Published.

Thanks.

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0ad (0.0.0+r07419~pre-alpha-1~getdeb1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #543277)

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:58:44 +0200

[Mankeys (mankeys)]

I have a problem with running it. Appears this error:
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ 0ad
./pyrogenesis_dbg: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.20.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I wanted to download this package, but it is already installed. The description is: Note that building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not Allowed.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Did you test the package on lucid or karmic ?

[Mankeys (mankeys)]

Lucid Lynx 10.4 Beta 1

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

I just uploaded a new package to the lucid repository.

Use this line in your sources.list:
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu lucid-getdeb games

[Mankeys (mankeys)]

Now is working. Thanks.

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

@Christoph Korn: thanks for the package!

Some notes:
1) Installation using the link "Install this now" doesn't work. It works however when adding the entry to sources.list.
2) the package includes lot of not needed .a files.
3) It also includes:
 - test_dbg: it should be run after make; no need to include it in the package (also it doesn't run since it needs to be in a writeable directory);
 - ActorEditor_dbg and ColourTester_dbg: I don't know what they are but they don't run anyway: "error while loading shared libraries: ../../../binaries/system/libAtlasUI_dbg.so": they are not listed at: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions#CreatingLinuxpackages (also note that libCollada_dbg.so (or libCollada.so) and libAtlasUI_dbg.so (or libAtlasUI.so) while listed to be distributed are not needed, see: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12996 .)

A patch is attached (also remove "cd libraries/fcollada/src && $(MAKE)" which is not needed and change ";" into "&&").

The package could also be built with "CONFIG=Release" to disable debug and improve speed, but at this point I think it's better to use the debug build, since the size is about the same and could help finding bugs.

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Thank you for the feedback.

I opened a new bug report for it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/getdeb.net/+bug/556356

I will apply those changes to the new version because none of the changes are critical for the current version.

[skybon (skybon-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Code and data are licensed under GPLv2 while art, sound and documentation are available under CC-BY-SA.
Proof: http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/page.php?c=46

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

my motivation when setting the title was to make it searchable. "0. a.d." did not perform so well :)

[Oibaf (oibaf)]

See also the thread at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2010/09/msg00005.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.