[Pkg-freeciv-devel] Bug#309272: freeciv-client-gtk: Delays ability to connect to a game at a specific address if metaserver is unavailable.

[Kokushoku Karasu]

Package: freeciv-client-gtk
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: important

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When I choose the option to connect to a network game, even if the game 
I'm trying to connect to is on MY own computer, the client waits until 
it's either recieved a response from the metaserver, or the timeout has 
occured.

Unfortunetly, this also means that if one's internet is down, but their
running a server on their own subnet with several players, one must wait 
for the connection to time out.

The reason I'm rating this "important" relates to #309046, because I find
myself hitting "go", THEN finding I crashed the client, then restarting 
the client, then waiting for a timeout makes the two even more annoying.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages freeciv-client-gtk depends on:
ii  freeciv-data  2.0.1-1                    Civilization turn based strategy g
ii  freeciv-serve 2.0.1-1                    Civilization turn based strategy g
ii  libasound2    1.0.8-3                    ALSA library
ii  libatk1.0-0   1.8.0-4                    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6                    Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6         2.3.2.ds1-21               GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0  0.2.35-2                   Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.6.4-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.6.4-1                    The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1                    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsdl-mixer1 1.2.6-1                    mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl1.2debi 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-4.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.2-4                  compression library - runtime

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