[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: games-fps/chocolate-doom, games-fps/freedm, games-fps/freedm-data, games-fps/freedoom, games-fps/freedoom-data, games-fps/gzdoom, games-fps/prboom-plus, games-util/deutex

[William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I've been maintaining several Doom packages, but recently as I've picked 
up more projects outside of Gentoo I have been pushing maintenance of 
these Doom packages lower and lower on my To-Do list. I don't want them 
to stay neglected, and since I don't see myself giving these packages 
the attention they require, I'm offering them up for a new maintainer:

games-fps/chocolate-doom
games-fps/freedm
games-fps/freedm-data
games-fps/freedoom
games-fps/freedoom-data
games-fps/gzdoom
games-fps/prboom-plus
games-util/deutex

The chocolate-doom package has a lot of patches under the files 
directory, but all of these should go away when version 3.1.0 is 
released by upstream.[^1]

The freedm, freedm-data, freedoom, and freedoom-data packages are 
closely related and share the same installation source; they should all 
be updated at the same time for each release. There is already a Gentoo 
bug open for the version 0.13.0 release.[^2] The maintainer of these 
packages should also consider maintaining the deutex package which is 
used to build the WAD files.

The gzdoom package already has a Gentoo bug open for the version 4.11.3 
release, which will require adding a new dependency on the 
media-libs/libwebp package.[^3] Two other Gentoo bugs[^4] are open 
regarding musl support (which upstream does not support). Upstream can 
sometimes be difficult to work with as they prefer users download the 
prebuilt binaries, use the bundled libraries, etc. -- philosophies that 
naturally clash with Gentoo ideals. However, they do accept patches so 
it's not all bad, and more recently vesion bumps have been pretty smooth 
with no need to send patches upstream.

The prboom-plus package technically has a Gentoo bug open for a 2.6.66 
version bump[^5], but upstream considers the project superseded by 
dsda-doom[^6] project.

Sincerely,

William Breathitt Gray

[^1]: https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/pull/1623
[^2]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/926025
[^3]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/926024
[^4]: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/games-fps/gzdoom/bugs
[^5]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/908973
[^6]: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom