Bug#803930: game-data-packager: please add support to create icons from the game data

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 43
Severity: wishlist

Hi there,

as previously discussed in private with Alexandre, it should be
feasible to create icons from (Doom-compatible) game data by
temporarily unpacking it with deutex and then converting it into
an appropriate format with imagemagick.

Take for example Chex Quest:

$ cd `mktemp -d`
$ deutex -x /usr/share/games/doom/chex.wad
$ convert graphics/stfst00.ppm chex.png

Win!

 - Fabian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages game-data-packager depends on:
ii  fakeroot        1.20.2-1
ii  python3         3.4.3-7
ii  python3-debian  0.1.27
ii  python3-yaml    3.11-2+b1
pn  python3:any     <none>

game-data-packager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages game-data-packager suggests:
pn  arj                   <none>
ii  binutils              2.25.1-7
ii  cabextract            1.6-1
ii  cdparanoia            3.10.2+debian-11
ii  dynamite              0.1.1-2
ii  gcc                   4:5.2.1-4
ii  gdebi                 0.9.5.7
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0        3.18.2-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0      1.38.1-1
ii  innoextract           1.5-1
pn  lgc-pg                <none>
ii  lgogdownloader        2.26-1
ii  lhasa [lzh-archiver]  0.3.0-2
ii  make                  4.0-8.2
ii  p7zip-full            9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2
ii  python3-gi            3.18.0-1
pn  unace-nonfree         <none>
ii  unar                  1.8.1-4+b1
pn  unrar                 <none>
ii  unshield              1.0-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-19
ii  vorbis-tools          1.4.0-7

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