Frets on Fire description is confusing

Forwarded to Debian, I shall work on it there

<and471> Can someone confirm this is an issue so that I can work on a debdiff? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587621
<pabs> mjj29 said he will probably package one of the forks and remove fretsonfire, so it probably isn't worth working on
<and471> pabs, ok
<and471> pabs, and that should make its way into ubuntu as well?
<pabs> if they autosync it yeah
<and471> pabs, cheers

So it looks like Debian is going to remove fretsonfire and package a fork.

@Vish, what do you think is the best course of action now?

Andrew: Does that mean it will be removed from the Ubuntu archive as well? If not , we might have to patch the Ubuntu package.
Also , we might have to watch out for the fork , and hope it does not have the same problem.

I don't know, hopefully tomorrow I can speak to mjj29 (guy mentioned above) as after the conversation above, pabs said it best to talk to him as he wasn't 100% sure.

Definitely! :)

Andrew, dug deeper here and found two bugs related to fretsonfire, and will be fixing both of them:

<and471> I have just noticed a bug in app-install-data, it should point to the meta package, not just the games files
<and471> but app-install-data incorrectly points to fretsonfire-game

<and471> I shall make a merge request for app-install-data to use the metapckage, not the game code package
<and471> and just change the description for the metapackage, http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/480315/ of their slogan

Debian hasn't given me any progress and so I have updated the ubuntu package myself. Hopefully next cycle they will have decided what they want to fork etc. and we can receive this.

Linked is the merge request for this.

One problem we have is that we want Software Center to show fretsonfire and point to the metapackage, not just the game package.

App-install-data (which provides the data) currently points the fretsonfire.desktop file to the game package because the .desktop file is in the game package (not the metapackage) however we don't want to move the file, as it defies the point of a metapackage.

Is there any way to provide, say, an override?

Ok, mvo has just made it so that app-install-data uses the fretsonfire metapackage now (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mvo/archive-crawler/mvo/revision/102)

I have now updated the branch so that it only contains the change to the description of fretsonfire. It is ready for merging! :)

Andrew: Please don't set fix committed on Ubuntu bugs, unless you have a pending upload.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status
Fix Committed is *not* to be used when a patch is attached to a bug

Ah sorry Stefano, set it to In Progress and wont do it again :)

This bug was fixed in the package fretsonfire - 1.3.110.dfsg-2ubuntu1

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fretsonfire (1.3.110.dfsg-2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Edited debian/control
    Better description for package 'fretsonfire' describing gameplay,
    included applications etc. and removing non-user-friendly 'this is
    a metapackage...' (LP: #599525)
 -- Andrew Higginson <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:52:55 +0200