Bug#776280: g-d-p: please add support for No Rest For The Living

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Montag, den 09.02.2015, 08:16 +0000 schrieb Simon McVittie: 
> I continue to believe that a package name that is (an obvious
> abbreviation for) the game's "marketing name" is a better choice than
> what the game engine calls it internally. quake3-team-arena-data, not
> quake3-missionpack; doom3-data, not neo-data :-)

granted, neo-data is a pretty extreme example. :)

Alright, so if we want to go the "marketing name" route, we should
actually stick with the marketing name. I am fine with either
doom2-no-rest-for-the-living-wad or doom2-norestfortheliving-wad or even
doom2-nrftl-wad; but doom2-norest-wad ist just an arbitrary abbreviation
that noone else uses.

> I think g-d-p is actually deterministic here: it will use the first wad
> in the list of alternatives, currently "doom2.wad_1.9" (90s Doom 2
> v1.9). If you don't have that one, it will continue down the list: the
> one from Doom 3 BFG Edition is (fairly arbitrarily) next on the list.

Ok, so it iterates through all the WADs in the list, sees if it can find
one, and if it does packages it and breaks. This seems legit to me.

> If you know that some of the versions of doom2.wad are better than
> others by some metric, we can re-order the list; or if some of the
> console editions don't actually work on source ports, we can remove them.

Chocolate Doom, which should be the most picky of all source ports, runs
fine with all the IWADs I have. Anyway, the ordering should priorize the
1.9 IWADs which are generally accepted as the originals.

It makes sense for the BFG Edition IWADs to come next, because they are
bundled with the Doom 3 re-release which is still on sale on Steam and
maybe even quite popular. All the other IWADs originally come from
console variants of the game and somehow need to get extracted from the
console media by more or less dubious means. I have never heard of
Tapwave Zodiac, admitedly, so this is alrwady really exotic.

For Doom 1, I believe the 1.9 Ultimate Doom IWAD should come first,
followed by the BFG Edition IWAD which also contains all 4 episodes.
Then the original 1.9 version might follow. BTW, I think there is a
patch available to upgrade 1.9 to 1.9 Ultimate Doom. Should we
incorporate this, too?

> The resulting .deb will overwrite .../doom/doom2.wad and leave the
> others intact, as Alexandre said.

Yes, I know.

Cheers,

Fabian