Bug#817972: The "symbols" data file isn't included

[James Cowgill]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 pending

Hi,

On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 09:32 +0100, Torbjörn Andersson wrote:
> Package: nethack-common
> Version: 3.6.0-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> One of the changes in 3.6.0 was to replace the old "DECgraphics", etc. 
> options with new "symset" and "roguesymset" options. This relies on the 
> "symbols" file (in the "dat" directory of the upstreams source code), 
> which unfortunately doesn't seem to be included in the Debian packages.
> 
> When trying to use the "symset" and "roguesymset" options, the game 
> should present a menu of available symbol sets, but instead prints 
> "Unable to access "symbols" file."

Thanks for the bug report. I've fixed it in git and hopefully I'll
upload it in a few days.

> I don't know if this should be in the nethack-common package, or if it's 
> only relevant to nethack-console.

I've put it in nethack-common just to be safe (since all the symbol
handling code is in src/ and not win/tty). Also I have a feeling
nethack-lisp could make use of the symbols as well.

Thanks,
James
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