[needs-packaging] ioquake3 or quake 3 engine, and derivative games

[Joe Terranova]

Either the packaging of the quake 3 engine, or ioquake3 (http://ioquake3.org/), preferably the latter. ioquake3 is even listed as suggested by the quake3-data package, yet is not packaged in Ubuntu or Debian.

In progress Quake 3 engine package in Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337937
No package information I can see on ioquake.

Adding one of these engines would allow us to add a number of Quake 3 derivatives that depend on the engine, namely Urban Terror and World of Padman.

[duduke (duduke)]

I strongly support this as a long time UrbanTerror and Quake3 fan (recently Ubuntu convert).

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

Another Urban Terror fan. Please include in the repositories!

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

PS. Are bug reports the way to request packages, I'm unsure .. and google didn't tell me much either!

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

I think there are three options:
  1. package ioquake and game data of different games separately
  2. package each game separately

I'm not if 1 is even possible, (they might have changed/tweaked the engines)?
Secondly, there are already ioquake games in the repositories without separating the code from the data.

At least Tremulous uses ioquake for sure, but I suspect also Alien Arena. Nexuiz and Warsow are also based on Quake3, but perhaps not ioquake3.

My point is, just package the like we are doing now. And if it ever becomes the policy to separate ioquake from the game-data, then do so for all games, including those already in the repository. But still my guess is they although they use the same core game engine, they modify it somewhat for each unique game.

So, please, just package. It's a shame such popular games as Urban Terror and World of Padman are not in the repositories, where games like Warsow and Nexuiz are, eventhough they are far less popular.

I've also requested the packages at getdeb.net, but unfortunately they can not host that amount of game-data which is common for 3d-shooters. Bandwidth limits and such.

So: please MOTU's .. just package!

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

I've checked it out:

ioQuake3 games already in the repositories:
  - open arena
  - tremulous

ioQuake3 games that are not yet in repositories:
  - Urban Terror (counter-strike like fun for free)
  - World of Padman (rat-like levels like those in half-life 1/2 deathmatch)
  - Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

If it is possible to separate code from game-data (to have on ioQuake executable and several game-data packages), then this could be considered a single package request.

If not, dear MOTU (we love you!), please inform us, so we can post separate bug-reports for each of these games.

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

See also: http://ioquake3.org/?page=games

[tremby (ps-launchpad)]

i agree that it would be nice to see ioquake3 packaged up nicely.

[Jack Coulter (jscinoz)]

I'm working on packaging Urban Terror for both Debian and Ubuntu see #179646

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

you mean bug #179646 :)

Just giving the hash doesn't link it to the bug.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

ioquake3 and at least one derivative game (OpenArena) are available in repo now.