Comment 10 for bug 231811

> The name prboom is misleading enough as it is, so if someone was installing it
> they probably already read the description and know what they're doing.

I think this bug report is evidence that people *aren't* reading the package description, or they'd know about doom-package and how to avoid installing freedoom.

> By making it Recommends, users blindly installing prboom will still get freedm
> on their system as Recommends is installed by default, so these users will not
> be disadvantaged.

That is certainly a stronger argument now that plain apt installs recommends by default as well as synaptic and aptitude. You could also quote "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality." however. I shall raise this on the debian-devel-games mailing list.

(If we're quick, we might get a change in *just* before the Lenny freeze :-) -- not that this impacts you folks much. )

> The doom-package description says "Currently doom-package supports DOOM 2
> only", so unfortunately this is still not a solution.

game-data-packager (a newer version of doom-package) supports doom, doom2 and both of the final doom IWADs. It is currently in the Debian NEW queue so I guess it will make its way to multiverse (or is that something that needs human intervention?): the code is at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/game-data-packager/ if anyone is curious in the mean time.

g-d-p also installs .desktop files, alternative in /usr/share/games/doom and icons for the menu entries. We will be removing the .desktop file from the engine packages in Debian soon. The installed-size of the package reflects the IWAD size so you have a fair idea of what payload the packages carry in the package manager interfaces. We will be able to introduce hooks to automatically build GL nodes for installed wads too.