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

[Alexandre Detiste]

Le lundi 11 mai 2015 10:49:56, vous avez écrit :
> 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...
> 

...

> On the other hand, I think that each of them should have their
> own .desktop file.

Current .desktop generator expect 1 package = 1 wad = 1 .desktop
but that could be moved in a loop.

I guess all the "with TemporaryUmask(0o022):" are not needed
anymore after changes to the 755 vs 644 chmod() heuristic;
so I don't even need to re-ident everything.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/game-data-packager.git/tree/game_data_packager/__init__.py#n1956


> 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).

Different versions means different hashes :-|

> 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?

Generally: 
"""""""""""

This is an already known problem:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775080

GDP currently doesn't have any prompt, one justs set the rights
parameters, type <enter>, and hopes for the rest.

*) If we want to keep this behaviour we could download optional
contents only if the "--package extension" is given.

With bash auto-completion, this is not a big hurdle:
 "game-<tab> doom2 --pa<tab> comp<tab>"

*) Or we need a GUI or a TUI
or some crude text prompt.


For this game precisely:
"""""""""""""""""""""""""

I would say "There Is No Such Thing as Notability", 
as long as it is of interrest to _several_ people why not ?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability

If someone came around with fan-made japanese dubbing
for some scummvm game, as long as the files are final
- don't want to track md5 changes like for GOG.com setup_*.exe -
I would take it.

It would weight about 1kb of text that'll get compressed with 'xz';
and that's so small compared to most games assets.

And generaly GDP would enable users to reclaim space
by not having tens of "dosbox.exe" and other .dll/.ovl/.drv/.cab
useless stuff... as files for each game are hand-picked.

Cheers
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