Bug#1054904: Missing user data

[Doug Larrick]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:09:14 +0000 Chris Carr <rantingman at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After an eight year gap I'm afraid save files were not compatible
> anyway, but please could you expand on what you mean by character
> history? Which files are missing? Most personal stuff should be in
> ~/.angband/Angband, which is not cleansed. I didn't have anything in
> /var/games/angband when I tested the package, so curious to know what
> you lost.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris

After having run the new Angband for a few runs through the dungeons,
/var/games/angband has files in "scores" and "save" directories. The
"save" is the save files, and the "scores" contains historic summaries
of characters who were killed. I suspect, but don't know, that this is
what the old version did as well.

You are right, it would make more sense to save this info in
~/.angband but that does not seem to be what it does. That's where I
looked in my backups, but to no avail (I don't back up /var).

No great loss, really, in my case, but some might be more upset.
Certainly I think it's as worthy of a mention as the SDL font issue you
nicely put in the NEWS.Debian.

-Doug