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

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 07:09:05PM +0000, Johey Shmit wrote:
> And then I'd like to add support for doom pwads to g-d-p. They would
> also end up in the same directory, making it even more crowded.

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.

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!)