Comment 4 for bug 231811
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| Jon Dowland (jond) wrote yes it should. | #4 |
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If you read the prboom package's description, you should see "PrBoom requires an IWAD to play. A free IWAD is available in the freedoom package. You can install your commercial Doom IWADs using doom-package. ".
The reason for using Depends: is that prboom cannot be used without an IWAD. In Debian therefore, it did not belong in the distribution because it couldn't be used without additional non-free parts (so it would go in contrib).
When freedoom was introduced, it was possible to use prboom using free components (freedoom), so it was moved to main.
You can satisfy the boom-wad | doom-wad dependency by building a package that contains your commercial IWAD if you have one. doom-package in debian does exactly that. I see doom-package is in multiverse, I wonder why.
I think applying this patch would degrade the quality of the prboom package because people could install it, try to run it and it won't work without additional bits.