Bug#747256: Chocolate Doom should be split into separate packages

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Thu May 8 07:16:21 UTC 2014


Hi fraggle,

Am Dienstag, den 06.05.2014, 15:39 -0400 schrieb Simon Howard: 
> Version 2 of Chocolate Doom added support for Heretic, Hexen and
> Strife. The compiled binaries and manpages for the four games are
> effectively separate, but Debian is currently distributing them as a
> single package. It would make more sense to split them into four
> separate packages so that people can just install the game(s) they
> want to play.

hm, as briefly discussed before, I am still not sure what this is
supposed to achive. The whole package is about 3MB - unpacked.

With the split approach I would also have to separate -server and -setup
into different packages and introduce rather complex inter-package
dependencies. Also, what should happen on upgrade?

Not sure about that. :/

Cheers,

Fabian



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