Hi Noel, this is a great idea. Not sure if I get around to implement it before Trixie, but for Forky, this would be really nice to have.
-- Cheers, tobi On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 10:40:03 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Noel?= <sebast...@twolife.be> wrote: > Package: src:dhewm3 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Would it be possible for you to add additional upstream tarballs to this > source package (DebSrc3.0 supports that) and build the libraries for > mods from the dhewm3-sdk repository ? > You are already splitting the game code for dhewm3-doom3 & dhewm3-d3xp > in separate packages, the new binary packages for mods would look > exactly like those. > Or do you think that it doesn't fit in src:dhewm3 and that I should make > another source package in Debian for that ? > > Why I am asking that ? > Because in game-data-packager we currently supports 2 dhewm3 mods > (Classic Doom 3 and The Lost Mission), and to supports those, in > addition to download/package pure data we also download code from > github, build it and ship a so library in the generated .deb. This is > fragile and not frequently tested (we don't rebuild very often those > kind of data package), and I'm in search of an alternative to ship those > game mods libraries properly somewhere else in Debian. > > Best regards, > Sébastien > >
