Bug#606402: Armor in the game is ignored since 2.3.2, causing balancing issues

[Erich Schubert]

Package: warzone2100
Version: 2.3.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Apparently, many 2.3.2 versions had a bug that effectively ignored armor
throughout the game. This obviously is unfair, as it makes armor research
a wasted effort. This also caused weapon balancing in the game to become
badly influenced, for example rendering machine guns much more powerful than
they were supposed to be.

>From 2.3.6 release announcement:
"This one fixes the armor that was ignored since 2.3.2, crashes when using
translations and several other problems (see below)."

May I suggest an update of warzone2100 for the release, as version 2.3.4 has
severe gameplay deficits, and after all no other application is depending on
warzone2100? Backporting just the armor fix will not work, as weapons balancing
had been adjusted in the meantime; just re-adding the armor will likely break
weapons balancing the other way then!

Also there are additional fixes, including some crashers, in 2.3.6

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages warzone2100 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.4.5-10     GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.9+repack-1   A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglc0                   0.7.2-4        QuesoGLC GLC implementation
ii  libglee0d1                5.4.0-1        extension loading library for Open
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    7.9+repack-1   The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libogg0                   1.2.0~dfsg-1   Ogg bitstream library
ii  libopenal1                1:1.12.854-2   Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libphysfs1                2.0.1-2        filesystem abstraction library for
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.44-1       PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.16-1         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.14-6.1     Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.5-10       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0                1.1.1+dfsg.1-3 The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvorbis0a               1.3.1-1        The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3            1.3.1-1        The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.3-4      X11 client-side library
ii  warzone2100-data          2.3.4-1        data files for warzone2100

Versions of packages warzone2100 recommends:
pn  warzone2100-music             <none>     (no description available)

warzone2100 suggests no packages.

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