Bug 935308 – games-arcade/tuxdash - Removal

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED PKGREMOVED

[Description James Le Cuirot 2024-07-01 22:07:37 UTC]

Ancient, dead upstream, generally awful.

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2024-07-01 22:11:37 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3ae76123efe37d890b3eeb2accd8cc052691e055

commit 3ae76123efe37d890b3eeb2accd8cc052691e055
Author:     James Le Cuirot <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2024-07-01 22:10:22 +0000
Commit:     James Le Cuirot <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2024-07-01 22:10:22 +0000

    profiles: Last rite games-arcade/{spacerider,tuxdash,xsfcave}
    
    Ancient, dead upstream, generally awful. Removal on 2024-08-01.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/935307
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/935308
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/935309
    Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <[e-mail]>

 profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

[Comment 2 cJ 2024-07-02 19:14:09 UTC]

Hi chewi,

I get "dead upstream" can cause maintenance burden, but "ancient" should not be a justification by itself, and "generally awful" without elaborating on why, does not give a good impression.

Best regards,

[Comment 3 James Le Cuirot 2024-07-02 22:45:09 UTC]

As I just wrote on the mailing list:

I have no problem with having merely old games in our repo. It helps if they
are still actively maintained, but they don't necessarily have to be. In fact,
I have been rather sad to see others drop games in the past. The games still
need to have some merit though. We are not a museum, and I would rather focus
energy on the much better games that still need our attention.

Experiences are subjective, of course, but I seriously doubted I would have
found these games entertaining at the time, let alone now. I'll admit that
TuxDash had some potential. It honoured the look of the original very well,
which I am old enough to have played in the 80s. The maps are entirely random
though, so there is practically no skill involved. A quick search revealed
many other open source clones that are probably much better.

I'll try to be more descriptive in my masks next time.

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2024-08-01 19:47:20 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8aa982f5af344ba0915c147655a4f88d2214fbde

commit 8aa982f5af344ba0915c147655a4f88d2214fbde
Author:     Arthur Zamarin <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2024-08-01 19:45:08 +0000
Commit:     Arthur Zamarin <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2024-08-01 19:45:08 +0000

    games-arcade/tuxdash: treeclean
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/935308 (pkgremoved)
    Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <[e-mail]>

 games-arcade/tuxdash/Manifest                      |   1 -
 .../files/tuxdash-0.8-fix-build-system.patch       |  11 ---
 .../tuxdash/files/tuxdash-0.8-fix-c++14.patch      | 101 ---------------------
 .../tuxdash/files/tuxdash-0.8-fix-paths.patch      |  45 ---------
 games-arcade/tuxdash/metadata.xml                  |   8 --
 games-arcade/tuxdash/tuxdash-0.8-r1.ebuild         |  47 ----------
 profiles/package.mask                              |   1 -
 7 files changed, 214 deletions(-)