Bug#535963: please add hints on how to extend game-data-packager for other (i.e. non-DOOM) packages

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 21
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I am the maintainer of the rott (Rise of the Triad) package. My 
package currently downloads and installs the non-free shareware game 
data from the upstream server during postinst and has been bitten by 
#530570, when upstream changed the download location for the game 
data. In the bug report it was recommended to add support for rott in 
game-data-packager, so I downloaded the package sources and tried to 
investigate the issue.

However, I found game-data-packager to be rather DOOM-centric and 
following the concept of single WAD files rather closely, whereas rott 
requires a multitude of data files to run. To make a long story short, 
I could not find a point of entry to finally add support for rott and 
would like you to add some generic hints and maybe boilerplates for 
adding support for other non-DOOM games.

Alternatively this bug may get closed if you (a) added support for the 
rott package or (b) helped my to implement it. ;)

Cheers,
Fabian


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