Bug#617265: wesnoth-1.9: New version 1.9.4 is out for a long time already. PLEASE update.

[Gerfried Fuchs]

tags 617265 + help
thanks

* Zaar Hai <stronghold.dev.fornova.net at fornova.net> [2011-03-07 18:18:17 CET]:
> Good dear wesnoth maintainer.
> First of all I'm really happy that development versions of wesnoth are
> availabe in Debian. Its really nice to have latest and greatest of
> this excellent game.
> Version 1.9.4 is out for quite some time. Can you please update
> current  wesnoth-1.9 packages to 1.9.4?

 Actually, the update is delayed for several reason: I was busy with the
squeeze release from the Webmaster Team point of view, and the aftermath
of it.

 But the most important reason, which made it impossible to just
"squeeze" in the upgrade straight-forward is that upstream decided to
remove the autotools support from the package. This means to completely
overhaul the build process in the direction of either cmake or scons
which both I'm not really familiar with. I tried to go the cmake
direction but it seems like that one isn't really packager friendly so
far (but I'm in contact with upstream to get that fixed), and I haven't
yet had the chance to dig into how scons might actually go.

 You have to understand that building wesnoth is a job of well over an
hour, and it easily starts to get depressing when one missed a tiny
detail which only appears at the end of the build to be crucial.

 Said all that, 1.9 is, as you pointed out yourself, a development
branch, so support for it isn't very high on my agenda of things to do
when there are other more pressing issues around. Any help is
appreciated to get it working, I've started to give it a try in the VCS
repository already, so if you want to help out you are invited to give
it a shot.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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