Bug#535963: please add hints on how to extend game-data-packager for other (i.e. non-DOOM) packages

[Jon Dowland]

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 01:33:50PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> However, I found game-data-packager to be rather DOOM-centric

Yes. game-data-packager is essentially a renamed
"doom-package". An attempt has been made to generalise it
in order to support other games, but so far the only person
who has worked on it has been myself, and only for the doom
features.

> following the concept of single WAD files rather closely,
> whereas rott requires a multitude of data files to run.

The non-doom specific stuff lives in
lib/game-data-packager-shared. the slipstream() procedure
is designed to take multiple arguments, but the doom stuff
just passes one.

> Alternatively this bug may get closed if you (a) added support for
> the rott package or (b) helped my to implement it. ;)

I have created
svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/branches/game-data-packager/rott
as a starting point for doing this. I've also built rott and
installed it.  I will have a go at a proof-of-concept
conversion of your postinst code into a game-data-packager
module sometime shortly.


-- 
Jon Dowland
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