Bug#530570: Path to 1rott13.zip changed

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Thu Jun 4 19:00:45 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:37:05PM +0200, Stefan Ritter wrote:
> Package: rott
> Version: 1.1-2
> Severity: grave
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the path to the shareware files has moved from ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/share/ to
> ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/pub/share/, so postinst fails to download them.

The proper fix would be to add support for the rott game data into
game-data-packager and to Recommend only game-data-packager. Downloading
game data in the postinst is highly fragile. We did that for quake2
in the past and it didn't work properly.

Cheers,
        Moritz





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