Bug#718773: Fwd: Bug#718773: No Turns Counter in Nethack

[Vincent Cheng]

Forwarding bug reporter's reply to the BTS.


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From: Mariusz Skoneczko <mariusz1605 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#718773: No Turns Counter in Nethack
To: Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com>


Oh oops I'm so sorry for the inconvenience!
It's working fine now. Just that the Windows and NAO both have turns
automatically on, so i was a bit shocked when I didn't see the turns
counter.

Thanks,
Mariusz



On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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




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