Hemisphere Games Forum

Hi,

I have some suggestions for improving the Debian package:

1. The package name must be lower case according to Debian policy §5.6.7. Otherwise it confuses the package manager.
2. You may want to put the architecture depending game data into /usr/lib/omos/ and the architecture independent game data into /usr/share/osmos instead of /opt.
3. You may want to use the lower case name for the file names (Osmos -> osmos, Osmos.png -> osmos.png, Osmos.desktop -> osmos.desktop). Lower case names are more common on Linux systems.

Last, but not least: Thanks for creating this nice game and making it available on Linux systems.

Thanks for your feedback, bdrung, I appreciate the suggestions!

Regarding the package name case sensitivity issue, I tested the .deb packages on a variety of package managers and found they were able to handle the package correctly in its current form, handle version bumps, etc., so *hopefully* the current naming shouldn't be a problem.... (fingers crossed)

In any case, I'll keep these in mind in case we need to patch (which I'm glad to say it currently looks like we won't have to do).

Glad to hear you're enjoying the game! Happy Osmoting....
Dave

I ran into the case sensitivity issue, when I created a local repository. Put some .deb files into a directory and run these commands:


Then you can add this line to your sources.list:


Maybe this issue is caused by apt-ftparchive, which assumes that all package names are lower case.