Bug#884354: game-data-packager: [doom] default behaviour of downloading and packaging e1m{4, 8}b is wrong

Jonathan Dowland jmtd at debian.org
Thu Dec 14 12:53:04 UTC 2017


Package: game-data-packager
Version: 49.1
Severity: normal

Running "game-data-packager doom doom.wad" results in game-data-packager
doing what I want (generating doom-wad*deb) but it also downloads and
packages two unrelated PWADs from the Internet (E1M4B and E1M8B).

I think it's a bad idea for game-data-packager to be downloading and
packaging individual PWADs at all, but, as a non-default behaviour, it's
something I would just frown at. As a default behaviour I think this is
wrong.

These two particular PWADs are levels made by John Romero, one of the
creators of Doom, who authored all but two of the maps in the first
episode of Doom. However they're still just unofficial maps, they are
not part of Doom, and there's no reason for them to be packaged:
nothing will ever depend on them.

[ for downloading and playing the thousands of PWADs available for Doom
   and Doom engine games, what we need is a F/OSS Linux-supporting Doom
   launcher, something quite different to game-data-packager. Possibly
   something like "Quake Injector":
   https://github.com/hrehfeld/QuakeInjector ]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (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        1.21-3.1
ii  python3         3.5.3-1
ii  python3-debian  0.1.30
ii  python3-yaml    3.12-1

Versions of packages game-data-packager recommends:
ii  game-data-packager-runtime  49.1

Versions of packages game-data-packager suggests:
pn  arj                   <none>
ii  binutils              2.28-5
pn  cabextract            <none>
pn  cdparanoia            <none>
pn  dynamite              <none>
ii  gcc                   4:6.3.0-4
ii  gdebi                 0.9.5.7+nmu1
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0  2.36.5-2+deb9u1
ii  innoextract           1.6-1+b2
pn  lgc-pg                <none>
pn  lgogdownloader        <none>
ii  lhasa [lzh-archiver]  0.3.1-2+b1
ii  make                  4.1-9.1
ii  p7zip-full            16.02+dfsg-3
pn  steam                 <none>
pn  steamcmd              <none>
pn  unace-nonfree         <none>
pn  unar                  <none>
pn  unrar                 <none>
pn  unshield              <none>
ii  unzip                 6.0-21
pn  vorbis-tools          <none>
pn  xdelta                <none>

-- no debconf information



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