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GhostSquad57 / Steam-Installer-for-Wheezy

Re-write of Valve's deb package. (Orphaned)
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Rebase wheezy steam installer from experimental repository? #8

Closed acimmarusti closed 11 years ago

acimmarusti commented 11 years ago

Hi there,

Thanks for your work on making steam available to Wheezy users.

You may have noticed that the steam client has actually entered the debian experimental non-free repository (I assume it will migrate soon to unstable and testing now that wheezy has been released as new stable): http://packages.debian.org/experimental/steam

It may be easier for you to rebase your effort from the work already merged into Debian. I can see certain benefits here, for example removing the useless ubuntu-only dependencies like 'jockey'. Of course bundling glibc > 2.15 will still be necessary to make it work in Wheezy, whether you get glibc from ubuntu or from Debian experimental (glibc 2.17) that's up to you.

I have tested steam from experimental and it works great on a Debian testing computer.

GhostSquad57 commented 11 years ago

@acimmarusti Once Steam makes it into Debian's official repos, I probably will no longer manage my installer as I wouldn't see any reason to.