Bug#534773: stormbaancoureur: DNS entry leaderboard.stolk.org no longer exists.

[Michael Dorrington]

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Package: stormbaancoureur
Version: 2.1.5-2.1

The game now aborts when the "EXAMINE LEADERBOARD" menu entry is
selected or on
level completion. This because the game lookups up a remote leaderboard at
"leaderboard.stolk.org" which is no longer in DNS and the code does an
assert
on the lookup result. I suspect the original bug report was when the
leaderboard service was removed but the DNS entry still existed.
Program aborts with

gethostbyname: Connection timed out
stormbaancoureur: postscore.cxx:42: void postscore_put(const char*,
float): Assertion `he' failed.
Aborted

The patch attached is a workaround, it sets the name to contact to be
"localhost.", which should be more contactable. Then the game will not abort
but instead will give "LEADERBOARD IS NOT AVAILABLE". A similar
workaround is
to add an entry for "leaderboard.stolk.org" to /etc/hosts like

127.0.2.1	leaderboard.stolk.org

A proper fix would be to not abort on lookup failure. And if the remote
leaderboard service isn't going to return then a reworking of code to
remove it
and have a local leaderboard.

I've emailed upstream about it.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages stormbaancoureur depends on:
ii  freeglut3                    2.4.0-6.1   OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii  libasound2                   1.0.16-2    ALSA library
ii  libc6                        2.7-18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]     7.0.3-7     A free implementation of
the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]       7.0.3-7     The OpenGL utility library
(GLU)
ii  libode0debian1               2:0.9-1     Open Dynamics Engine -
runtime lib
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.2-1.1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  plib1.8.4c2                  1.8.4-10    Portability Libraries:
Run-time pa
ii  stormbaancoureur-data        2.1.5-2.1   game data for Stormbaan Coureur

stormbaancoureur recommends no packages.

stormbaancoureur suggests no packages.

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