Bug#708996: supertuxkart keeps crashing randomly and one of the sprites is mangled

[georgiytreyvus at riseup.net]

> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:55 PM,  <georgiytreyvus at riseup.net> wrote:
>> package: supertuxkart
>> version: 0.7.3-2
>>
>> For reasons I can't ascertain supertuxkart keeps crashing randomly. Also
>> one of the sprites/karts the monkey "Suzanne" is horribly mangled.
>>
>> In like June of last year I was using Debian Sid with supertuxkart
>> version
>> 0.7.3 and it worked just fine without any issues.
>>
>> Maybe consider recompiling a slightly older/newer patch of version 0.7.3
>> and replacing it with what's now in Wheezy.
>
> This is a known issue, see #619071, #677609, #695747 (and the dozen or
> so bugs on launchpad, for ubuntu) for the crashes and #679837 for
> Suzanne being incorrectly rendered.
>
> I'll prepare a backport of stk 0.8 for wheezy users soon. Of course,
> if you're willing to dig into this further, I'd gladly accept
> non-intrusive patches (i.e. acceptable for a stable update) to fix
> whatever's causing this issue in irrlicht/stk.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
Like in early June of 2012 when I used STK 0.7.3 from Sid it worked
perfectly. Wouldn't the simplest solution be to just replace the current
version of STK 0.7.3 with the one that was in Sid in like June 2012? Or
are there dependency or security issues I'm missing here?