Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

Markus Koschany apo at gambaru.de
Tue Sep 25 15:42:56 UTC 2012


On Tue, 25. Sep 15:53 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On 25/09/12 13:44, Markus Koschany wrote:
> > Indeed it isn't reproducible with a clean installation of
> > OpenArena. You have to connect to a heavily modded server like
> > Gem's InstaGib server.
> 
> Playing on a modded server with auto-download turned on can replace
> the UI with arbitrary bytecode - for instance, a UI based on the
> upstream OpenArena release, which will consequently no longer have the
> "are you sure you want to shoot yourself in the foot?" prompt. If
> that's what's happening here, then there's no way to fix it.
> 

I think that's exactly what's happening here. The whole
pak6-patch088.pk3 file gets also downloaded again. Sounds like wontfix.
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