There you go, this is a celebration day, vegastrike has finally migrated to testing ! Vegastrike basically never was in testing, excepted apparently by mistake last year... Quite a fair amount of work, I'd say !

Well, now, I'll be able to package the official 0.5 release and take care of excessive dependencies.

I'm currently working on putting back vegastrike into shape, bringing slightly more recent code (only three years after the last sourceful upload). And I'm fighting with patches (a good dozen), trying to see what does not apply anymore and what still does, why some patch was written in the first place... I have two requests to the community about that (and, please, do flame me if you think differently ;-)...):

As I've mentioned before, I play to Morrowind (III) using Wine. Fine. Thanks to a nice guy on the AppDB Forum, I found out that what was causing Morrowind to segfault was simply that I had not set any audio device in my configuration... So I did with winecfg, and it worked, and I was quite delighted.

Another day starting well: apparently Wine is a better alternative than Vista for gaming (admittedly, this guy only tested four different games, but Wine was the clear winner). Great !

As for me, I finally got Morrowind working under Wine, which is one of the reasons why I haven't been that active for Debian recently.

I've recently gone back to use wine to play "old" Windows games. Unfortunately, Morrowind, the one I'd like to play - really great one, if I daresay, is not working on my computer, though it should, according to its AppDB page. I tweaked wine's configuration, but no success so far. I decided it would be worth to try from within a real IA32 environment, just to check if that could be a bug linked to this. So, today's game is to create an IA32 debian system from my own, set it up and boot it.

First thing, create a i386 chroot using debootstrap:

I don't know how it feels for you, but that starts to look like team work:

a7xpg (0.11.dfsg1-3) unstable; urgency=low

[ Barry deFreese ]
* Add watch file

[ Jon Dowland ]
* Add Homepage: control field to source stanza

[ Peter De Wachter ]
* Don't abort if the audio device couldn't be opened. (Closes: #448786)
* Fixed link command, patch from Arthur Loiret. (Closes: #458277)

[ Miriam Ruiz ]
* Added XS-DM-Upload-Allowed tag to control to allow uploads from Debian
Maintainers.

[ Vincent Fourmond ]
* Added myself to Uploaders
* Fixed Vcs* fields and remove stale Homepage fields

-- Vincent Fourmond Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:14:15 +0100

The Debian Games Team is pretty dynamic, I'd say.