Bug#691772: game-data-packager: Inconsistent from game to game

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 30
Severity: normal

Hi,

with its current behavious, game-data-packager is inconsistent from game to
game.

Take for example "rott" or "wolf3d": Demo versions exist for these two games
and they are freely available on the net. There are also commercial versions
available for purchase, but g-d-p does not support them.

Now, when you run e.g. "game-data-packager rott", you are asked to either pass
the "-w" option to automatically download the demo version from the net and
package it (very neat, BTW!) or specify the path to the demo ZIP file using the
"-f" parameter.

Now, on the other hand, run e.g. "game-data-packager heretic": A demo version
is also available for this game, but g-d-p does not support downloading it. It
does not even support packaging it, only the commercial version. And guess
what, you have to supply the path to the WAD file on the command line - without
an additional parameter.

I think this is pretty much messed up. I don't have an universal solution at
hand, but I think we could use this bug report as a discussion ground.
Furthermore I believe it should be possible to optionally download demo
versions for all games in g-d-p, if they are freely available.

 - Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (502, 'unstable'), (501, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages game-data-packager depends on:
ii  dynamite    0.1.1-2
ii  fakeroot    1.18.4-2
ii  p7zip-full  9.20.1~dfsg.1-4
ii  unzip       6.0-7

game-data-packager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages game-data-packager suggests:
pn  lhasa | jlha-utils | lhz-archiver  <none>

-- no debconf information