Bug 767805

Summary:	Replace Glest with Megaglest
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Brandon <h_fone>
Component:	glest	Assignee:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Brandon 2011-12-14 22:15:17 UTC

Description of problem:
Glest is a dead project

The development on Glest has ceased some 3 years ago, and MegaGlest, which is a fork of Glest, continues to be developed and has fixed some bugs in Glest and added many new features.

Packages built for Megaglest
http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=7214.0


build script
https://megaglest.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/megaglest/trunk/mk/

megaglest-rpm-meta.tar.bz2 contains the .spec file which may need to be modifed as the versions change in megaglest

Comment 1 Brandon 2011-12-14 22:18:45 UTC

Personally, I really like this game, many distro have started to replace glest with it.  I think adding it to fedora would make the distribution more appealing.

Comment 2 Bruno Wolff III 2011-12-17 17:09:14 UTC

I agree that megaglest would be a nice addition to Fedora. And I agree that once megaglest is in Fedora, there isn't much reason to keep glest and that dropping it going forward (but not from released versions of Fedora) makes sense.
However this isn't really a bug for glest. This needs to be added as a new package and go through a review.
Since you mentioned that one of the upstream maintainers might be interested in packaging it (in an outside email message), I think waiting to see if he follows through on that is the best short term action.

Comment 3 Bruno Wolff III 2012-11-20 21:34:49 UTC

megaglest has been packaged for Fedora. glest has been dropped from recent versions of Fedora.