Opentyrian package does not come with cfg

[blackomegax]

$ opentyrian

Welcome to... >> OpenTyrian 2.1.20130907 <<

Copyright (C) 2007-2013 The OpenTyrian Development Team

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file GPL.txt for details.

warning: failed to open 'tyrian.cfg': No such file or directory

Invalid or missing TYRIAN.CFG! Continuing using defaults.

warning: failed to open 'opentyrian.conf': No such file or directory
warning: failed to open 'tyrian.sav': No such file or directory
initialized video: 640x400x32 windowed
no joysticks detected
assuming mouse detected
error: failed to open 'palette.dat': No such file or directory
error: One or more of the required Tyrian 2.1 data files could not be found.
       Please read the README file.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: opentyrian 2.1.20130907+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-23.28-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jan 12 19:10:03 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-11 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: opentyrian
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alexandre Detiste (alexandre-detiste)]

The .cfg is generated on the fly; I would rather say; "game doesn't come with data";
but there's a solution for that.

$ cat /usr/share/doc/opentyrian/README.Debian
opentyrian for Debian
---------------------

This package only contains the opentyrian engine. The game data is non-free, but
can be downloaded free of charge.

To actually play the game, you need to install game-data-packager and run the
following command, which will download the data, build the tyrian-data debian
package, and install it.

    game-data-packager -i tyrian

Or if you have a local copy:

    game-data-packager -i tyrian /path/to/tyrian21.zip

For more information, please see the manual page for game-data-packager(6).

[Alexandre Detiste (alexandre-detiste)]

test

[blackomegax (blackomegax)]

Interesting.

Grabbed tyrian21.zip and figured it out.

Should be noted that my research found that the OG game was released as freeware, which should allow inclusion of tyrian21.zip data in repo and full functionality out of the box.

[blackomegax (blackomegax)]

(IANAL though)

[Alexandre Detiste (alexandre-detiste)]

This can not be considered as a valid license: (two quotes starting by '>')

cat /usr/share/doc/tyrian-data/copyright
The tyrian-data package was generated using game-data-packager.

The files within "/usr/share/games/tyrian-data" are subject
to the copyright © 1995 Eclipse Productions, Epic MegaGames
and were in 2004 released as Freeware.

From http://www.freewebs.com/worldtreegames/ :
> Feel free to play it all you want and share it with friends, but for
> the moment I'd like to just have a central backup place (here) for
> the game. In the future I might not mind other sites sharing it,
> but I do enjoy amusing fans. :)

From http://www.camanis.net/
> Tyrian has been released as freeware by Jason Emery.

These terms overide the one from the license.doc
present in tyrian21.zip.