Bug#730868: freeciv: New upstream version 2.4.1 available

[Jacob Nevins]

Markus Koschany writes:
> the current human maintainers of freeciv are quite inactive/busy these
> days. You could always try to update the package yourself and ask
> someone on debian-devel-games at lists.debian.org for sponsoring your
> package. This might often be the quickest way to get an urgent fix into
> Debian/Ubuntu.

You're probably right that it's the quickest way, but so far I've been
successfully resisting the temptation to get involved in Debian
packaging -- I already have too many commitments as upstream...

> As soon as Alioth and the git repositories are back online, I can try to
> package 2.4.1. I hope there aren't too many changes.

Since 2.4.0 is already packaged, I *think* 2.4.1 should be a
straightforward rebuild.
I don't see anything scary-looking at
<http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.4.1#Build.2Fportability>
nor any significant additions to doc/README.packaging.

> I can't promise that the new release will be uploaded in time before
> the 6th of February. That depends on whether I can find a sponsor for
> freeciv.

Thanks for considering it.