This page is a work-in-progress: some things may not make sense.
todo for Lenny
- get screenshots into games-thumbnails for
- -freedoom- -- done
- -prboom- -- done
- bsp?
- deutex?
- get packaged
- wadc (see below)
- chocolate-doom
- get useful data into file(1)
- upstream maintained?
- accept patches?
wadc
- unarchive and reassign ITP
- repackage upstream
- tar.gz instead of zip
- remove .class files
- advice on repacking clarification needed (http://bugs.debian.org/470960)
- import into pkg-games repository
package migratory work
- .desktop files into data files
- need new doom-package, or game-package, version
- new game-package
- solve UI issue (gdebi?)
- implement quake2 or quake3 backend?
- support doom1 IWAD (and/or TNT, PLUTONIA too?)
I've forgotten the other changes I made.
The below need some fairly significant puiparts testing:
new prboom package
- depends: doom-wad | boom-wad
- needed before freedoom withdraws doom-wad so should go in first
- any other changes? (I can upload this one myself!)
new freedoom package
- dm-upload-allowed
- new binary package (needs NEW)
- .desktop file
- thus needs depends: doom-engine
- provides: boom-wad (not doom-wad)
initial chocolate-doom package
- depends: doom-wad
- provides: doom-engine
- needs freedoom transition first
new game-package package
- NEW, again
- replaces: doom-package
- supports doom, tnt, plutonia as well(maybe?)
- installs using gdebi
- test
- quake2-data backend?
- quake3-data backend?
- doom-data backend
- .desktop files etc.
- thus needs to depends: doom-engine
doom packaging guidelines
- update to current situation
- package?
- incorporate into debian-policy?
quake2/quake3
quake2 engine sucks, has been orphaned I think, no point in quake2-data nor support in game-package unless we have a suitable engine
quake3 similar? unsure -- ioquake3 status?