Version 2.6.66 of prboom-plus was released on June 20, 2023: https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus/releases/tag/v2.6.66 Note, PrBoom+ is now considered "in maintenance mode" (https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus/commit/6940a95e92222ae59bcb880e457eb11c27cb5af0) with the project redirecting users to a successor project: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom
How could they not name it PrBoom++? :P
Oh, looks like the GitHub repository for PrBoom+ was archived today. I suppose that means there will be no more future releases at all then.
Looking through the Debian removals document[^1] I found an entry indicating that the prboom-plus package has been removed from unstable: [Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:07:39 -0000] [ftpmaster: Scott Kitterman] Removed the following packages from unstable: prboom-plus | 2:2.6.2-1 | source ------------------- Reason ------------------- [auto-cruft] obsolete source package ---------------------------------------------- We have been using the Debian package as our source to build PrBoom+, so it's unlikely we can build this final version 2.6.66 without significant effort to repackage the source code from GitHub. Furthermore, any fixes or other patches we need in order to maintain prboom-plus in Gentoo would become a de facto fork because upstream has archived the source code and moved on to another project. As such, I'm going to step down as maintainer for this package, since I don't think we can effectively maintain prboom-plus without an upstream. I'm not sure if we should also last-rite games-fps/prboom-plus in this case, since anyone else picking up maintenance of this package will be in the same predicament without an upstream. [^1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt
I don't think there's a big rush to remove it unless something actually breaks, but in any case, we should get dsda-boom packaged first.
I don't feel too strongly to late-rite it, so if someone else wants to pick up maintenance of this last version then I welcome them. The reason I decided to remove myself personally is because I recall the difficultly I had trying to get the source to build directly from the GitHub releases. So I decided this is a good point for me to step down because I don't want to devote the effort to get it building now that Debian has dropped the source package.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2c781cfb1ae2d5f670da2374ab9906ca562b558a commit 2c781cfb1ae2d5f670da2374ab9906ca562b558a Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-05-23 18:04:11 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-05-24 11:25:24 +0000 profiles: Mask games-fps/prboom-plus for removal Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908973 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/939219 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
(In reply to William Breathitt Gray from comment #3) > We have been using the Debian package as our source to build PrBoom+ Debian are packaging dsda-doom, so I guess the same approach could be used: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/dsda-doom
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a97b29f1db2d665282c343d35228bb34f9c5a87e commit a97b29f1db2d665282c343d35228bb34f9c5a87e Author: Kacper Słomiński <kacper.slominski72@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2025-05-24 20:16:41 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-05-25 08:21:28 +0000 games-fps/dsda-doom: new package, add 0.29.0 A replacement for games-fps/prboom-plus, which was last-rited recently. No USE flag for DUMB since it's unmaintained (bug 949101); I haven't noticed a significant loss of functionality without DUMB. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908973 Signed-off-by: Kacper Słomiński <kacper.slominski72@gmail.com> Part-of: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/42244 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/42244 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> games-fps/dsda-doom/Manifest | 1 + games-fps/dsda-doom/dsda-doom-0.29.0.ebuild | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../files/dsda-doom-0.29.0-versioned-doc.patch | 26 ++++++++++ games-fps/dsda-doom/metadata.xml | 33 ++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 119 insertions(+)
