Bug#748525:

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Fri Sep 19 21:19:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:57:39AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems Josh didn't receive this message. Adding him to CC accordingly.

I indeed hadn't; thank you.

> On 19.09.2014 10:24, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > Control: serverity -1 important
> > 
> > Hi Josh,
> > 
> > while this bug may be annoying, it does not justifty a grave severity, as it
> > does NOT render the package useless.
> > 
> > Please see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
> > 
> > Therefore downgrading.
> > 
> > --
> > tobi
> 
> 
> I think in this case the bug submitter is right because this bug affects
> all widescreen setups including my own and I suspect most people use a
> widescreen ratio nowadays. So for all those people this bug is a
> show-stopper.

That and the bug is not easy to recover from, since while you can get
into this state via the GUI configuration, you can't get out of it
without manually editing ~/.pangzerorc .  That was what made me report
the bug as grave.  If the game automatically recovered into a usable
mode, or if you could only get *into* this state by manually editing a
configuration file, I would only have used "important".

> In addition there are multiple other issues with this package which are
> described in more detail at
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/692221
> 
> In my opinion those are almost all serious problems which make the
> package "unfit to release" at least. Fortunately Hans de Goede has also
> setup a Git repository with patches, including a patch for #748525.
> 
> https://github.com/kthakore/pangzero
> 
> https://github.com/kthakore/pangzero/commit/bc3e77823772e8f87f50142778f8e6fe44badfb3

Awesome.

> I suggest we package his version and work on a new release to fix all
> those issues but raise the severity to RC again until the package is in
> a usable state again.

Sounds good.



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