chocolate-doom split

[Simon McVittie]

On 04/05/15 16:37, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am Montag, den 04.05.2015, 17:19 +0200 schrieb Alexandre Detiste: 
>> Strife is a separate game (like Hacx & ChexQuest), please recommend
>> "strife-data".
> 
> But can't the same reasoning be applied to Heretic and Hexen? Because, a
> few lines later you state that you are going to rename these to back to
> -wad?
> 
> Please excuse my stupid questions, but I really fail to understand what
> is going on here. :/

I think Alexandre is applying this algorithm in an attempt to get the
most consistent naming possible, given historical practice:

    def get_suffix_for_new_package():
        if game already has at least one known -wad package:
            use "-wad" for all variants of that game
        else:
            consistently use "-data"

where "game" means something a consumer would recognise (Doom, Doom II,
Heretic), regardless of how it works behind the scenes, and "variants"
includes full/shareware/demo/whatever.

Debian + contrib has had some level of Heretic and Hexen support since
before jessie, under the names "heretic-wad", "hexen-wad", so we're OK
with calling their demo/shareware variants "-wad" as well.

Strife support is new since jessie, so we'd prefer the more
technology-neutral "-data" for its supporting data package (similar to
how g-d-p doesn't generate quake-paks, and there's no openarena-pak0-pk3
package in main).

Does that make sense?

    S