Bug#737347: xboard: wish for pre-4.8 snapshot for experimental to get new features more exposure

[Vincent Legout]

Hi Yann,

Yann Dirson <ydirson at free.fr> writes:

> 4.8 features many new features, including support for new large shogi
> variants, and overall better support for non-chess ("xboard @shogi"
> and friends), including the ability for a compatible engine to declare
> itself to xboard.
>
> I have packaged hachu some time ago, as the only available DFSG
> program able to play those large variants (I've kept it in
> experimental till now, since there is no GUI yet in unstable to play
> them).  Having a compatible xboard there would allow to start working
> on hachu/xboard integration, and to give more precise feedback to
> upstream to make sure that those new features are packaging-friendly.
>
> A master-20140119 snapshot was tagged recently, it looks like a good
> version to package.

I've just uploaded this snapshot to experimental. I tried running hachu
and it seems to be working for the "mighty lion" and "cho shogi"
variants, but not using the shogi (9x9) variant. Let me know if you need
anything in XBoard to improve the hachu integration.

Vincent