Bug#1072834: between: Game no longer works due to server error

Sat Jun 8 16:30:32 BST 2024

Package: between
Version: 6+dfsg1-4
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: jvalleroy at mailbox.org

Dear Maintainer,

    * What led up to the situation?

I installed between and tried to run it.

    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or 
ineffective)?

Run the "between" program.

    * What was the outcome of this action?

The following is printed in the terminal:

Screen dimensions for fullscreen mode:  640x480
L4 | Sat Jun  8 11:19:18 2024 (506 ms) | general | Checking if requested 
video mode (640x480) is available
L4 | Sat Jun  8 11:19:18 2024 (506 ms) | general | All resolutions available
Max note length in song = 16
Response:  <html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>cloudflare</center>
</body>
</html>

The game window opens and shows the title screen. When I press spacebar, 
it shows "Locating server..." for a second, and then shows the message 
"ERROR: Badly formatted response from server." (see attachment). There 
is no way to continue after this point, except to close the window.

    * What outcome did you expect instead?

The game would be playable. It seems to depend on a server that no 
longer exists.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 
'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 
'bookworm-fasttrack')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE 
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages between depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.36-9+deb12u7
ii  libgcc-s1               12.2.0-14
ii  libgl1                  1.6.0-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]  9.0.2-1.1
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.15+dfsg2-8
ii  libstdc++6              12.2.0-14

between recommends no packages.

between suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
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