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

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags -1 + patch moreinfo

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 at 20:10:57 +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> 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

According to /usr/share/doc/uhexen2/README.Debian those are in fact
version 1.03, but yes that's the retail CD-ROM version.

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

There are xdelta3 patches that are meant to be equivalent, downloadable
from the uhexen2 developers' Sourceforge site (see my other mail to this
bug). I now have some untested commits adding support for those.

If you have access to v1.03 data, please try
<https://salsa.debian.org/smcv/game-data-packager/commits/wip/hexen2-patch>.
You will probably need to use something like

    game-data-packager hexen2 --no-search /media/cdrom

to stop it from finding your patched v1.11 data. Hopefully the xdelta3 patches
can successfully reproduce v1.11 binaries.

    smcv