Bug#718773: No Turns Counter in Nethack

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Mariusz,

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Mariusz Skoneczko <mariusz1605 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: nethack-common and nethack-console
>
> Versions: 3.4.3-13 and 3.4.3-14
>
> Hi,
> Whenever I run
> $ nethack
> to launch nethack and select all the beginning roles etc. I am faced with a
> stats bar that is missing the turns counter.
>
> It looks like this:
> P1xel the Hatamoto     St:14 Dx:14 Co:18 In:11 Wi:9 Ch:9  Lawful
> Dlvl:1  $:0  HP:15(15) Pw:2(2) AC:4  Exp:1
>
> When it should look like this:
> P1xel the Skirmisher    St:18/06 Dx:13 Co:18 In:7 Wi:9 Ch:7  Lawful
> Dlvl:3  $:185 HP:0(52) Pw:15(15) AC:6  Exp:5 T:1750
>
> (note the T is missing)
>
> I suggest possibly recompiling nethack from source and removing some patches
> (modifications) as they may be the cause of the bug.
>
> This is the ouput for uname -a
>
> Linux p1xel-Latitude-E6230 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17
> 18:19:42 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>

On closer inspection, I don't think this is caused by any packaging
errors. AFAIK, the turn counter is provided by the "time" option [1],
which defaults to false upstream, and we leave it unchanged in the
Debian package. This is also runtime configurable rather than a
compile time option.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Option#time