Review: openbor 4.0~b7533+dfsg.1-1
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| Description | sprite based side scrolling gaming engine OpenBOR is a royalty free sprite-based side scrolling gaming engine. From humble beginnings in 2004, it has since grown into the most versatile, easy to use, and powerful engine of its type you will find anywhere. OpenBOR is optimized for side scrolling beat em’ up style games (Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, Final Fight), but easily accommodates any sort of gameplay style and feature set you can imagine. |
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| Maintainer | Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paulliu@debian.org> |
| Changed By | Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paulliu@debian.org> |
| Sponsor | paulliu@debian.org |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | amd64 |
| Closes | #1110004 |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openbor |
| Uploaded | 6 days ago |
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| Date | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:06:05 +0100 |
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| Source | openbor |
| Version | 4.0~b7533+dfsg.1-1 |
| Changed-By | Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paulliu@debian.org> |
| Architecture | source amd64 |
| Distribution | unstable |
Changelog
openbor (4.0~b7533+dfsg.1-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial release. (Closes: #1110004)
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| Section | games |
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| Priority | optional |
| Component | main |
| Package-List | openbor deb games optional arch=amd64 |
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Upstream-Name: openbor
Upstream-Contact: https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor
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engine/xbox/generic/2xsaiwin.*
engine/xbox/common/*
engine/source/gfxlib/2xSaImmx.asm
tools/borplay/source/kbhit.h
tools/borplay/source/kbhit.c
Files: *
Copyright: 2003 Roel van Mastbergen & Senile Team
2004-2019 OpenBOR Team
License: BSD-3-clause
Files: engine/android/app/jni/openbor/Android.mk
Copyright: 2009 The Android Open Source Project
License: Apache-2.0
Files: engine/android/app/jni/openbor/include/vpx/*
Copyright: 2010-2014 The WebM project authors
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Files: engine/android/app/jni/openbor/include/sdl/*
Copyright: 1997-2025 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
2017 Mark Callow
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Copyright: 1997-2019 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
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engine/android/app/jni/openbor/include/sdl/SDL_opengles2_khrplatform.h
Copyright: 2008-2014 The Khronos Group Inc.
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engine/android/app/jni/openbor/include/sdl/SDL_opengles2_gl2platform.h
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Copyright: 1997-2019 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
1999-2006 Brian Paul
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tools/borplay/source/listmusic.py
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Reviewed 6 days ago.
Report
DFSG NEW review for openbor version 4.0~b7533+dfsg.1-1
Summary
- Licensing is DFSG-compliant and
debian/copyrightis accurate: Yes - Packaging is of good quality: Yes
- Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 5 minor
- debian/watch: version 5
- debian/copyright: machine-readable
- Scan before the review: 1 found
Licensing
The source is DFSG-free: every third-party component I found (ogg/tremor and vpx headers, libpng, SDL and its Khronos/SGI sub-headers, hq2x/interp.h, halloc, nestegg, the bor* tools, ZSNES/Andrea Mazzoleni gfx code, the Frontier Artistic vsnprintf) carries a free licence, the full texts of the non-common ones are in debian/copyright, and the differently licensed parts are compatible (the amd64 binary is GPL-2+ because of hq2x.c). debian/copyright is DEP-5 and has a stanza for each of these, so the description is accurate in substance; two small inaccuracies are reported below (a stray editor-backup README left to the BSD-3 catch-all, and a Khronos copyright missing from one SDL header stanza).
Packaging
Competent packaging: debhelper compat 13 with a minimal dh rules file, DEP-3 patches, build-dependencies that match the Makefile's -l flags, a generated man page, Rules-Requires-Root: no, current Standards-Version and a correct install of the single binary into /usr/games. The nits are a link rule that ignores LDFLAGS (no RELRO), a misdescribed patch, an unexplained amd64-only Architecture, and the absence of debian/tests and Vcs-* fields; none of them prevents an upload.
Issues
minor licensing 1. tools/borplay/README-borplay.txt~ falls under Files: * (BSD-3) although it is Bryan Cain's GPL-2+ README ◂
- Files:
tools/borplay/README-borplay.txt~:1,debian/copyright - Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
- Evidence: The file starts
Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Cain ("Plombo"); debian/copyright matches onlytools/borplay/README-borplay.txtwithLicense: GPL-2.0+, so this editor backup shipped by upstream is caught byFiles: *(2004-2019 OpenBOR Team,License: BSD-3-clause). - Problem: The file therefore gets the wrong holder and a licence nobody granted for it; a GPL-2+ text cannot be relicensed as BSD-3. DEP-5 (copyright-format 6.8) requires the stanza that matches a file to state its actual copyright and licence.
- Fix: Add
tools/borplay/README-borplay.txt~to the existing GPL-2.0+/Bryan Cain stanza, or remove the file from the source (Files-Excluded) since it is a duplicate of README-borplay.txt.
minor licensing 2. The SDL_egl.h stanza omits the Khronos Group Inc. copyright ◂
- Files:
engine/android/app/jni/openbor/include/sdl/SDL_egl.h:40,debian/copyright - Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
- Evidence: The file contains
** Copyright (c) 2008-2009 The Khronos Group Inc.(the embedded EGL/khrplatform header), but its stanza lists only1997-2019 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>and2017 Mark Callow. - Problem: DEP-5 (copyright-format 6.5) requires the Copyright field to record every holder of the matched files; the Expat licence is already declared correctly, so only the holder is missing.
- Fix: Add
2008-2009 The Khronos Group Inc.to the Copyright field of the SDL_egl.h stanza.
minor packaging 3. The link rule never passes $(LDFLAGS), so the RELRO flag from dpkg-buildflags is dropped ◂
- Files:
engine/Makefile:724,debian/patches/0004_remove_rpath.patch - Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
- Evidence:
@$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJS) $(TARGET_RESOURCE) $(LIBS); dpkg-buildflags(1) states thatrelroadds-Wl,-z,relroto LDFLAGS (bindnow/pielikewise live there). - Problem: dh_auto_build exports dpkg-buildflags' LDFLAGS, but the Makefile never uses the variable, so the binary is linked without the -Wl,-z,relro Debian hardening expects (this is what lintian reports as hardening-no-relro). Using CFLAGS at link time does not substitute for LDFLAGS.
- Fix: Add
$(LDFLAGS)to the link command in a Debian patch (it can go next to the RPATH change in 0004 or in a new patch).
minor packaging 4. Patch 0004's Description does not mention that it also removes -Werror from CFLAGS ◂
- Files:
debian/patches/0004_remove_rpath.patch:1-16 - Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
- Evidence:
Description: Remove hardcoded RPATH from Makefile to comply with Debian Policy ...while the second hunk changesCFLAGS += -g -Wall -Werror -Wno-format-truncation ...toCFLAGS += -g -Wall -Wno-format-truncation .... - Problem: Dropping upstream's -Werror is a reasonable Debian change (new compilers warn on old code), but hiding it in a patch about RPATH misdescribes the patch and makes it hard to forward or drop either change independently; DEP-3 expects the Description to cover what the patch does.
- Fix: Split the -Werror removal into its own patch with its own Description, or extend this patch's Description to name both changes.
minor packaging 5. Architecture: amd64 restricts a portable engine to one architecture without a recorded reason ◂
- Files:
debian/control:19,engine/Makefile:87-98 - Basis: inferred from what was read, not seen directly
- Evidence:
Architecture: amd64; Policy 5.6.8: specifying architecture listsis for the minority of cases where a program is not portable or is not useful on some architectures. Where possible, the program should be made portable instead. - Problem: The Linux build is portable C; the x86-specific part is the optional MMX assembly, which the Makefile enables only when the GNU triple does not contain "64" and which needs the excluded
2xSaImmx.asm. Restricting to amd64 silently drops arm64/ppc64el/riscv64, and the architecture choice is made by a substring test on$(GCC_TARGET). - Fix: Make the Makefile's architecture handling portable (disable BUILD_MMX independent of the triple, do not force -m32/-m64) and use
Architecture: any; if amd64-only is deliberate, say why in debian/README.source and a comment in debian/control.
Verified ◂
- Prescan file
media/_DUMMY: a one-byte non-text placeholder that keeps upstream's otherwise emptymedia/directory in git; it is not a built file and holds no copyrightable content. - Prescan holders: the Xiph.Org Foundation (include/ogg, include/tremor headers), Bryan Cain (tools/borplay/source/.py, tools/makepkg/.sh), Glenn Randers-Pehrson (include/png/png.h), Alex Pankratov (engine/source/webmlib/halloc/*) and Mark Martinec (engine/symbian/vsnprintf.h) are all named in the matching debian/copyright stanzas; the two flagged
Bryan Cain ...README strings are the first lines of files already covered. - Licence inventory: read both
LICENSEfiles,tools/LICENSE,tools/README,tools/7-Zip/*, all oftools/, gfxlib, webmlib (halloc, nestegg), engine/xbox/generic, engine/symbian and the android include/ headers (ogg, tremor, vpx, png, sdl); every third-party notice found has a stanza and every licence is DFSG-free. - engine/xbox/generic/scale2x.cpp:26-31 offers a non-commercial alternative beside its GPL-2+ grant; the GPL option is taken, so the file is free, and this port is not built on Linux anyway.
- engine/source/gfxlib/hq2x.c and interp.h are GPL-2+ (Andrea Mazzoleni) and hq2x.o is in the amd64 object list (Makefile:315), so the resulting binary is GPL-2+, compatible with the BSD-3/ISC/zlib/Expat files it links; full texts are in debian/copyright or /usr/share/common-licenses.
- All Files-Excluded paths are absent, and no .exe/.dll/.a/.so/.o/.pak/*.7z remains in the tree; the
libpng.anamed at engine/android/app/jni/openbor/Android.mk:30 is a prebuilt used only by the Android port. - engine/resources/logviewer_{320,480}x{240,272}_png.h embed complete PNG files as byte arrays used by engine/sdl/menu.c:484; the PNG bytes are intact, so the image exists in recoverable (editable) form even though no separate .png is shipped.
- The PNG/ICO/ICNS files in engine/resources and the android res/mipmap-* icons are upstream's own menu and icon artwork under
Files: *; nothing in the tree suggests a third-party origin. - Patches: read all four; each has a DEP-3 header (Description, Author, Forwarded: no, Last-Update) and a purpose visible in the diff (type fixes, array test, mallinfo2, RPATH).
- Standards-Version 4.7.4 against Policy 4.7.4.1 from the policy tool: current. Build-Depends cover the -lSDL2 -lSDL2_gfx -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg -lvpx -lpng -lz -lm link line; compat 13, Rules-Requires-Root: no, and ${misc:Depends}/${shlibs:Depends} are fine.
- debian/clean lists build products only: engine/version.h is written by version.sh, openbor.6 and version001.txt are generated, and resources/meta.xml and resources/Info.plist are written by version.sh and are not in the upstream tree.
- uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream
4.0~b7533, packaged4.0~b7533+dfsg.1). - Every pointer of
debian/copyrightto /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (Apache-2.0,GPL-2,GPL-3,LGPL-2.1,LGPL-3).
Not confirmed ◂
- debian/rules:42-43 builds the man page with
$(XP) $(DB2MAN) $<and neither-onor a shell redirection; if the docbook-xsl manpages stylesheet writes its result to stdout, openbor.6 is never created and dh_installman (debian/openbor.manpages) would fail. docbook-xsl is not installed on this system, so I could not check the stylesheet; a build would show it. - engine/source/webmlib/halloc/* says only "distributed under terms of BSD license" with the URL opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php and no licence text in the tree; that URL is the BSD-2-Clause template, so debian/copyright's BSD-3-clause may overstate the terms. I had no network access to confirm which text the halloc author meant.
Proposed changes ◂
None.
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