MIR for gnugo

[James Westby]

Binary package hint: gnugo

Hi,

Since kigo now recommends gnugo it wants to move to main. Therefore it either
needs an MIR or kigo needs demoting. Please either:

  * Turn this bug in to an MIR for gnugo and follow the MIR procedures.
  * Turn this bug in to a request for demotion of kigo to universe and subscribe ubuntu-archive.

Ryan, I am assigning to you as you made this change. Please find someone else to do
the work if you are unable to.

Thanks,

James

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

another option for solving this is for kigo to drop the recommends to a suggests.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Yes I would like gnugo in main. It needs no notable dependencies, has had no security issues and includes a large regression testsuite. The testsuite is not part of the package build process currently but could be easily added.

I don't want to drop gnugo from a recommends to a suggests, running the programme just gives a message to install gnugo. We could drop kigo from the kdegames meta-package which would stop it needing to be in main. MIR for gnugo is my preferred option so subscribing ubuntu-mir.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

There was no Debian upload in 1.5 years, but there are no Debian/Ubuntu bugs. It has ancient packaging, though (not even using debhelper), but since it has no i18n/gettext and is just by and large an engine, we do not need to worry about translation stripping anyway.

So it's a bit rusty, but as a game it's harmless enough that I could live with it being in main.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Promoted