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Re: Looking for a Debian Maintainer for Freecell Solver
>
> I am the main programmer of Freecell Solver, which is a library and an
> executable for automatic solving of boards of Freecell and similar
> Solitaire variants. Freecell Solver is already used by KDE's Solitaire
> suite - kpat -
I am not familiar with the KDE debs. Yet if kapt _depends_ (= can not run
without it) on Freecell than this might solve part of the problem of having a
deb for it since whoever package kapt will probably need to include Freecell
in some way or another.
> and it is expected that it will be used by PySol and by
> GNOME's AisleRiot as well. Thus, I decided to make it into a package that
> will be used by all of those Freecell implementations.
>
Same thing as above.
> Freecell Solver now has an Autoconf/Automake/libtool-based building
> process that generates a shared library, a static library, and an
> executable that links against the shared library. I have already written
> an RPM SPEC for it (partially in thanks to Tzafrir Cohen's lecture), and
> installing it by rpm seems to work fine.
>
> However, I would also like to have a Debian package it. Now, since I don't
> use Debian regularily nor its package system, I would like to have someone
> who does, so he can maintain it for me. Thus, if anyone of you wishes to
> be one, or can forward this message to a global Debian mailing-list, I
> would be grateful to you.
>
You might want to post this yourself on debian-devel@lists.debian.org. Do not
expect too much though.
> What the maintainer should have (in that order):
>
> 1. Familiarity with how to make a Debian package or a willingless to learn
> it.
>
> 2. Familiarity with RPM SPECS. I maintain the RedHat package, and he could
> build the Debian based on its SPEC.
>
Can't hurt but no real need for that.
> 3. Familiarity with Freecell and similar games, and with Freecell Solver
> in particular. (I believe he will need to test it to make sure everything
> is fine).
>
>
> If anyone is willing to take the job, he should contact me at
> shlomif@vipe.technion.ac.il.
>
>
> References:
>
> http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/freecell-solver/
> - The Freecell Solver Homepage
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/
> - The Freecell Solver mailing-list
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/72
> - A message sent to it discussing this issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Shlomi Fish shlomif@t2.technion.ac.il
> Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/
> Home E-mail: shlomif@techie.com
>
> A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes
> what went wrong more quickly.
>
In the meantime one might _try_ alien:
Package: alien
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 181
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 7.22
Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2
Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_7.22_all.deb
Size: 111874
MD5sum: 300ba678067a28af44a8ca6626545104
Description: Install Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg.
Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into
Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
.
It can also convert into Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede packages.
.
This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
Yet I never used alien myself, which is why I can not tell how good it is
for your specific task.
--
Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
(Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
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