Bug#585052: closed by Barry deFreese <bdefreese at debian.org> (reply to bdefreese at debian.org) (Re: boswars: crash when trying to load a saved game for a removed campaign)

[Barry deFreese]

On 6/2/2013 8:09 PM, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote:
> reopen 585052
> thanks
> 
> 
> Coin,
> 
>> After speaking with upstream, this is expected behavior.  The save
>> games are not transferable
>> between versions unfortunately.  He was saying that the error
>> reporting could be better but it is
>> intended behavior.
> 
> No, I already opened a bug report upstream almost 3 years ago and explained why this is a bug and
> needs to be solved.
> 
> I don't mind if upstream is not willing to work on loading old saved games, I'm asking to fix a
> crash. If the saved game is not loadable, the game should really says so instead of a nasty and
> misleading behavior. There's no good reason for a crash, being just a game or not.
> 
> Regards.
> 

Duck,

Understood but if upstream won't fix it what is the point of having the bug in Debian?

Thanks,

Barry