Bug#733750: Bug #733750: better advice for old versions of games (e.g. hexen2)

[Alexandre Detiste]

Le mercredi 24 janvier 2018, 18 h 34 min 52 s CET Jonathan Dowland a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:45:55AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >Also, the help text is now displayed at the end if we couldn't make any
> >packages at all. In the case of Hexen II, this does now say what you need:
> ...
> >Is that enough to consider this bug resolved?
> 
> Sorry for the long delay in replying. Looking over the bug and clones,
> having been prompted by a bug against uhexen2 itself (#882114);
> 
> As far as the original scope of this bug is concerned, yes, I think we 
> could close it; the documentation is improved, g-d-p has the checksum
> data for hexen2 now and I believe it will emit the relevant warnings.

Hi,

I have located the v1.00 versions of files.

      21714275  b53c9391d16134cb3baddc1085f18683 pak0.pak
      76958474  9a2010aafb9c0fe71c37d01292030270 pak1.pak
sha1sums: |
  15358c105f88f8099fe889150a83022992c7357b pak0.pak
  bd7d83349f8718ae5f16614ae99857b06a22fdd0 pak1.pak

...
$ file *.pak
pak0.pak: Quake I or II world or extension, 44608 entries
pak1.pak: Quake I or II world or extension, 33600 entries


> However (and I'm not sure why I didn't file it this way in the first
> place) I think it would be nice if game-data-packager could handle the
> patching of hexen2 data where necessary.

The patch is called  h2_patch_v111.exe and is a windows-only executable
that seems to run fine with wine.

Alexandre