* Package name    : pioneer
  Version         : 20240203
* URL             : https://pioneerspacesim.net/
* License         : GPL-3 (code), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (data)
  Programming Lang: C/C++
  Description     : space adventure game set in the Milky Way galaxy

I intend to maintain it in the Games team.

[Reiner Herrmann 2025-02-03]

I notice there is a git repository
<URL: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/pioneer.git >.  What is the
status of packaging, and is there anything blocking you from uploading
it for NEW processing?

I tried building the salsa git repo on Bookworm, and ran into a few
issues that might be useful to document.  I had to backport the
nanosvg build dependency, as it is only available since Trixie.  I
also had to modify the runtime dependency on fonts-dejavu-mono to
accept the alternative before this package was split out from
fonts-dejavu-core, using this patch:

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bdeb8ea..904cbae 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Description: game of lonely space adventure
 Package: pioneer-data
 Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, fonts-dejavu-core, fonts-dejavu-mono, fonts-wqy-microhei
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, fonts-dejavu-core, fonts-dejavu-mono | fonts-dejavu-core (<< 2.37-7), fonts-wqy-microhei
 Description: game of lonely space adventure - data files
  Pioneer is a space adventure game set in the Milky Way at the turn of the 31st
  century.

Sadly, the game did not start.  I picked it from the KDE menu, but
only got a popup stating the following:

  Pioner Warning

  Cannot find shaderdef file vtxColor.shaderdef

  [OK]

Found the same message in
<URL: https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues/5337 >, where
the response was "To find the Pioneer data directory, the binary must
be run with a working directory one level above the data directory
(there is some additional special-casing for installed builds which
lets it look in /usr/share/pioneer IIRC, that may be an option in your
case). You'll need to modify your .desktop file to properly set the
working directory."

I've picked up some work on this package. I think the first step would
be to update the codebase to the current release:
https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/pioneer/-/merge_requests/1

Ultimately, I don't think we need the entire source within the salsa
repo, and we can use a configuration file to download the source as is
done in other debian packages.

I've uploaded an updated package here, if anyone is interested in
reviewing / sponsoring this:

   https://mentors.debian.net/package/pioneer/

I plan to fix up more of these lintian errors soon.

Please don't, I never figured it out, and newcomers would be alike.

Storage is cheap and this is a small game