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

Johey Shmit joheyshmit at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 31 15:12:59 UTC 2014


Hello Fabian,



> Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> schrieb am 20:18 Donnerstag, 30.Januar 2014:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 30.01.2014, 19:09 +0000 schrieb Johey Shmit: 
>>  Yes, that's true of course. But aren't the games startet by the 
> desktop
>>  entries which point to a wad file directly anyway? The built in wad
>>  browsers of the game engines aren't really used in that scenario, so we
>>  could split up the wad files into separate directories.
> 
> I regularly run e.g. "doom -iwad doom2.wad -file ~/doom/whatever.wad" 
> in
> a Terminal and would find it very inconvenient if I had to specify a
> specific path to the IWAD files just because they happen to be
> heretic.wad or hexen.wad.

Ok, I see your point. Attached is a patch against git that adds support
for the following games:

- heretic shareware
- hexen shareware
- strife shareware
- hexen add on hexdd
- strife registered

All files are put into /usr/share/games/doom/.

Thanks for considering including the patch!
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