Bug#691152: deutex ignores freedoom.wad

Jon Dowland jmtd at debian.org
Mon Oct 22 09:24:42 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:43:30AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> since version 0.6.4-4 the freedoom package does not provide a doom2.wad file
> anymore for compatibility issues. However, deutex expects a file of that name
> and does not consider freedoom.wad as a valid replacement. The attached patch
> fixes this by adding "freedoom.wad" to the list of supported iwad files.

Hmm. I did wonder whether removing that would cause trouble.

Not sure whether patching deutex is the best approach. Symlinking
debian/tmp/doom2.wad (in the prboom build directory) to
/usr/share/games/freedoom.wad would at least restrict the damage to the prboom
sources. But I guess we'd need to check-and-possibly-symlink to a whole slew of
different IWAD names, depending on what was in the environment, to support
rebuilding without freedoom (but with a commercial IWAD). What a mess ☹

I'd quite like to replace deutex with something more modern one day. The IWAD
requirement is superflous nowadays.



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