Bug#738502: freeciv-client-gtk: earth-80x50-v3.sav.gz Unknown savefile format version (10) Failure loading savegame!

[Markus Koschany]

On 10.02.2014 04:20, David Christensen wrote:
> On 02/09/2014 05:45 PM, Jacob Nevins wrote:
>> This is a known upstream bug in 2.3.2 (bug #20050) ...
>> ... open security issues ... CVE-2012-5645, CVE-2012-6083.
> 
> Should I expect an "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" to fix these
> bugs/ issues in the future, or not?  If so, when?  If not, why?

Hi David,

There are three different options:

1. You could wait for the next stable release, Jessie, which is going to
be released in the first half of 2015. Then "apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade" will upgrade your whole system to the new stable release
and to the latest and fixed version of freeciv.

2. I intend to backport 2.4.1 to wheezy. Depending on whether I can find
someone who uploads the game to backports, the game will probably be
available next week.

http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

3. *Disclaimer* Only for experienced users

You can also decide to mix stable and testing or even stable and unstable.

You need to add a new line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main

I also recommend to create this file with the following content

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10default-release

APT::Default-Release "stable";

You can then "mix" two different Debian distributions, whereas stable
will be the preferred one, and install freeciv from testing with

apt-get update && apt-get install freeciv -t testing

I recommend to choose option 2.

> p.s.  I don't know if "Reply to All" is the correct way to reply to
> Jacob's message.  A canned footer with reply instructions would be helpful.

Replying to the bug report 738502 at bugs.debian.org is sufficient.
Everyone who has subscribed to the package will then receive a notification.

Thanks for your bug report. Since the bug is fixed in newer versions of
freeciv, I intend to close it as soon as 2.4.1 enters Debian backports.

Regards,

Markus


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