Bug#1087743: RM: xletters -- ROM; not compatible with any modern Unicode system

[Alexandre Detiste]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: xletters at packages.debian.org, Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
Control: affects -1 + src:xletters
User: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove

Hi,

I tried the game.

Ok, it's old and look old;
that can be a mater of taste.

But most importantly it does not work on any Unicode system,
as already reported in 2005:

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311194

The original FTP (!) upstream is still there but is not going anywere.

There are better alternatives, I request the removal of this old game.

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tchet at quieter:~/deb/xletters$ ncftp ftp://ftp.madore.org/pub/madore/xletters/
Connecting to 163.172.37.113...                                                                                                                                                                                                             
(vsFTPd 3.0.3)
Logging in...                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Login successful.
Logged in to ftp.madore.org.                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Current remote directory is /pub/madore/xletters.
ncftp /pub/madore/xletters > ls
README                    xletters-1.0.0.tgz        xletters-1.1.0.tar.gz@    xletters-1.1.0.tgz.asc    xletters-latest.tgz@      xletters.tar.gz@          xletters.tgz.asc@
xletters-1.0.0.tar.gz@    xletters-1.0.0.tgz.asc    xletters-1.1.0.tgz        xletters-latest.tar.gz@   xletters-latest.tgz.asc@  xletters.tgz@
ncftp /pub/madore/xletters >

X Letters - Catch falling words

To install:

0. Read the GPL carefully if you don't know it by heart already.  You
can find it in the file COPYING.  It applies to xletters.

1. Edit the file config.h; apart from the SCOREFILE constant, you can
leave everything untouched if you want.  You may also want to have a
look at the Imakefile.

2. Build xletters by typing
        xmkmf && make

3. Become root and install xletters by typing
        make install && make install.man
or install them by hand.  You may want to make xletters sgid games.

4. Create the directory for the high score file (according to the
value you gave to the SCOREFILE constant in step 1).  If you made
xletters sgid, you should also create the score file itself (make it
empty initially) and make it group-writeable.

                                Paris, 1998/09/11
                                David Madore