FreeOrion for Debian
====================

Download

https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/releases/download/v0.4.5-test-gaf01/FreeOrion_2015-08-03.af01c2f_Source.tar.gz

and remove all superfluous files which start with ._

Recompress the tarball with xz and you get the original upstream tarball
distributed by Debian.


Bundled GG (libgigi) library:
 At the moment GG is not feasible to maintain separately:
  * It is used exclusively by freeorion.
  * FreeOrion maintains a fork of GG in FreeOrion's source tree.
  * FreeOrion's GG fork is better maintained and needs less patches.
    * For example the original libgigi library doesn't build with gcc-4.7
      (requires gcc-4.6) while from FreeOrion's source tree
      it builds fine with gcc-4.7 and doesn't need the "vector.patch".
  * GG is not a proper library (more like a plugin) and therefore
    not suitable for packaging as a standalone libgigi(-dev) package.

