Bug#776061: game-data-packager: please add a game-data-competn package containing the Compet-N set of PWADs

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Freitag, den 23.01.2015, 14:24 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: 
> - Memento Mori
> - Memento Mori 2
> - Requiem
> - Hell Revealed
> - The Classic Episode (1st Ed.)
> - Alien Vendetta (2nd Ed.)

I am not sure how to proceed with this one...

One the one hand, each of these MegaWADs replaces either a complete
episode of Doom 1 (class_ep) or the entire of Doom 2 (the others) and
should thus be considered separate games in their own regard. On the
other hand, I'd like to keep them as a bundle (just like the Master
Levels) and don't think that it makes sense to create a separate DEB
file for each.

Then, I don't think adding a launcher application (ala Master Levels)
for them makes sense, as they are most often used for recording or
playing back of demos which requires at least some command line skills.
On the other hand, I think that each of them should have their
own .desktop file.

The WADs are freely (as in Beer) available from various sites, though
I'd recommend to download them from the Doom Speed Demos Archive
<http://doomedsda.us> which has most of them repacked in reasonable
all-in-one ZIP files which sometimes contain some goodies (like e.g. the
MAP21 fix required for Requiem).

Since they are strictly "third party" and also strictly "special
interest", I'd say they shouldn't get downloaded automatically if one
runs g-d-p with only the "doom" or "doom2" parameters. They could be
made into a special option for both games. But then, haven't we reached
a point where this feature is already too special to be part of g-d-p?

Phew...

Cheers,

- Fabian
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