Bug#1030172: game-data-packager: no suitable mirror for etqw found

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 20:40:12 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> A user who does not want to use reportbug writes:
> > WARNING:game_data_packager.download:Failed to download "http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run": HTTP Error 404: Not Found

(etc.)

This appears to be because Gentoo no longer hosts copies of ETQW patches.

The company behind ETQW now has them on a CDN, so we can change g-d-p
to point to that, meaning no special workaround will be needed.

> > First, after having found a working download for the missing file at https://ftp.jeuxlinux.fr/files/ETQW-client-1.5-full.x86.run, I copied it into ~/Downloads/ETQW.
> > Then, with the help of some knowledgeable guys from #debian-games on irc.debian.org, I modified step 3.) to the following terminal command:
> > 
> > game-data-packager --binary-executables -d ~/Downloads/ETQW --save-downloads ~/Downloads/ETQW etqw /path/to/ETQWDVD

In fact --save-downloads is only necessary if you want any other
auto-downloaded files to end up in ~/Downloads/ETQW - and as a
convenient side-effect, it also tells g-d-p to search that directory
before downloading anything. You were using that side-effect as your
workaround here.

If you just want g-d-p to consider a pre-downloaded game file as something
it can use, it's sufficient to list that file, or a directory containing
that file, on the command line (like you did for /path/to/ETQWDVD).

    smcv