[needs-packaging] SDLMAME

[Murat Gunes]

(Filed on behalf of requester at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3280814#post3280814)

A port of the popular MAME™ to Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX. Should replace XMAME, which is no longer developed.

http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163

License: LGPL compatible

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. I'm marking this as triaged.

[Cesare Falco (c.falco)]

I'm currently packaging SDLMame and first package releases have been in Revu since March.

Recently, I also become a Launchpad beta tester, and sdlmame is now on my PPA too:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/c.falco/ubuntu

I'm still waiting for inclusion in the official repository after some reviews, but I need more of them.

[Lele83x (lele83x)]

How do I post a review for your package ? I think it's perfect on ubuntu gutsy 64bit, and actually the only one available...please answer

[Cesare Falco (c.falco)]

Unfortunately, you can't post a review unless you are a MOTU reviewer. This is part of the process which leads to inclusion in the official repositories (both for universe and multiverse components), to ensure packages are built "the right way". MOTUs have been really busy during the last days, due to Gutsy official release. If you wonder who MOTUs are, look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU for further info.

However, I like to thank you for your feedback! :)

[Lele83x (lele83x)]

Uhhh I get it, that's why the packages need so much time to be included. It's the drawback of having a stable release tough and that's ok because stability comes before preatty much everything.

Why don't you make a website to sponsor your packages ? They are really really good, much better than the ones everyone is using these days "http://wallyweek.altervista.org/index.php" in my opinion.

Thank you.

[Cesare Falco (c.falco)]

You can find them either
* on my PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~c.falco/+archive
* on REVU: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=sdlmame

Ehm... well... you can also download them from the link you mentioned as I *am* wallyweek... :)
I must admit the site is quite ugly, but I have no time to make it shine, with a breathless release cycle as sdlmame one. But packages are the same.

Feel free to make any suggestion about them.

[Lele83x (lele83x)]

You are Wallyweek ??? But on that site there is no 64bit package! And the packets have different names than the ones here http://ppa.launchpad.net/c.falco/ubuntu, that's why I tought you where a different person.

[Cesare Falco (c.falco)]

I own an 1386 machine, I can't build amd64 packages at home, neither I can test them.

I started uploading sdlmame on my PPA to check correctness of my rules for amd64, but I'm still considering it some kind of beta release, as I only had some positive feedbacks from one user. I may assume happy users are now two at least, right? :)

Also, I could download amd64 packages from my PPA and upload them to the site, but I have both limited bandwidth at home and space on website. I considered to host the site on my home server, but that way, each time a new release is published I wouldn't even read mail, unless limiting bandwidth to a very low percentage. :o

As for the package names, they may differ for the distro release and architecture, but I don't understand in what else. Could you please explain that? If there's some error on the site, I'll be glad to fix it. :)

Thanks for your help!

[Lele83x (lele83x)]

The deb I downloaded and installed is this one: sdlmame_0.120a-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb, it works very well, I once tried to install sdlmame from source but it ran very slow for no apparent reason, yours is flawless so far. As for the names maybe i got confused, the 32 bit versions are the same on both sites.

Thank you anyway, and let's hope you get more positive reviews

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Bumping back to 'In Progress' based on comments by Emmet Hikory.

[Cesare Falco (c.falco)]

Could anyone please close this bug?
SDLMAME is now in the multiverse repository. ;-)

Thanks!
Cesare.