Bug#786983: residualvm: please ship data in /usr/share/games/residualvm

[Alexandre Detiste]

Le jeudi 28 mai 2015, 09:26:28 Dmitry Smirnov a écrit :
> On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:30:03 Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> > This is well here only about 2Mb of files, but the aim is also
> > to keep this game consistent with the others in Debian.
> 
> I'm not sure about this. Not only their size is small but those files actually 
> just Residualvm's own skin and not the game data. I don't see any benefits of 
> this change (but not any harm either).

> Besides for Residualvm it is more important to keep its packaging close
> to Scummvm but I reckon you can argue that the latter should also
> put its data to /usr/share/games. At the moment I'm not convinced
> so I'll hold on to this change for further consideration.

Of course I noticed than scummvm is packaged the same way as residualvm
(well, scummvm was first!).

I'd have first to check if this would impact the DFSG games (lure, sky, foaq...),
so residualvm was a lower hanging fruit:

| dpkg -S /usr/share/scummvm
| lure-of-the-temptress, scummvm-data, flight-of-the-amazon-queen: /usr/share/scummvm

There do are games engine for which both free & non-free bits
_have_ to reside in the same directory, lite the quake engines:

| dpkg -S /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/
| quake3-server, quake3-data: /usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3

| dpkg -S /usr/share/games/quake
| quakespasm, quake-registered, quake-dissolution, quake-armagon, quake, quake-music
| dpkg -S /usr/share/games/quake/quakespasm.pak
| quakespasm: /usr/share/games/quake/quakespasm.pak

But that's not the case with scummvm games, so scummvm-data
& the dfsg games could be indepedently relocated.

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By the way,

All the non-free scummvm games supported by game-data-packager
(space quest, kinq quest, simon the sorcerer, maniac mansion series etc...)
currently install under /usr/share/games/<game name> by default.

Maybe installing the data at /usr/share/games/scummvm/<game name>
would make the /usr/share/games directory more readable.

That's only about changing 2 or 3 lines of shared python code in GDP.

> At the moment I'm not convinced
> so I'll hold on to this change for further consideration.
Of course there's no hurry at all, it's more of 
a OCD-ish thing than a real bug.


PS:
> I'm not sure about this. Not only their size is small but those files actually 
> just Residualvm's own skin and not the game data.

But GrimFandango & MonkeyIsland... assets are huge
and could go into /usr/share/games/residualvm/<game name>/
like proposed for scummvm games.


Alexandre Detiste
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