Bug#737137: game-data-packager: patch to support hexdd

[Fabian Greffrath]

> I'm not sure how to handle PWADs. I would like to see some packaged. I
> had a grand scheme to data-mine the doomworld.com/idgames DB for PWADs
> with a DFSG-free license, correlating with the community reviews/score
> to get the best ones. I suspect that, if that was ever done, someone
> should package the results up into one ZIP somewhere and that could be
> packaged as a first-class Debian archive package.

Honestly, I am afraid the list of DSFG-free high-rated PWADs will be
rather short. Instead, I think we should package some of the classics [1],
or at least add support to download and package them with
game-data-packager. Its purpose is to package non-free game data anyway.

> I think that rather than try to add individual PWAD support to g-d-p
> I'd like to see someone package and/or write-and-package a half decent
> doom launcher. Such a thing could handle downloading PWADs and storing
> them somewhere itself. (Of course, I'm not fixed in my opinions!)

Yes, this would of course be better, but I am afraid that someone has to
write this before. ;)

 - Fabian

[1] E.g. the 6 Compet-N PWADs plus Icarus and Eternal Doom.