Bug#788057: game-data-packager: please add support for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike

[Alexandre Detiste]

2015-06-25 11:00 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
> The commit message for data/blakestone.yaml says "WIP". Do you consider
> this to be ready for release, or should I disable it for g-d-p 42?

G-D-P already support the one version (to be) supported by ecwolf.

What remains to be done is locating v1.00
& firing-up DOSBox to apply the patches one by one to get the checksums
of all intermediate versions and tag them as "unsuitable".
(or get someone to reverse-engineer patch.exe)

So support for this get is not yet optimal, but already pretty good,
especially for Steam or GOG that both ships now latest version.

I can finish this soon.


> Do we want to disable the generation of these packages until a suitable
> ecwolf exists, at least upstream?

That's what I was thinking of when I added is_available();
this is better than having a flag in the yaml file;
because this got evaluated a run-time,
and then there is no hurry to release a new GDP each
time a new engine lands in the archive.

And this also recognize the .deb's provided by
upstream game engine projects.

Disabling it completely seems a bit too much;
maybe showing a warning and/or a confirmation prompt would be more appropriate,
and/or just always enable those if DEBEMAIL is set ?


There are tens of half-done engine recreations that
could be added to GDP to eventually help their development.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations

Alexandre