Bug#1087990: 0ad: Crashes on launch with OpenAL 1.24.0

[Vincent Cheng]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 6:12 AM Antoine Le Gonidec via Pkg-games-devel
<pkg-games-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
>
> Package: 0ad
> Version: 0.0.26-7
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Since the 1.23.0 → 1.24.0 OpenAL upgrade in unstable, 0 A.D. crashes on launch.
> This is a problem affecting the upstream too:
> https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/125203-crash-on-start-due-to-soundmanager/
>
> A fix has been suggested upstream:
> https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/7234
>
> I suggest cherry-picking this fix into our build as a patch,
> that could then be dropped once we package a new release including this fix.
> I can provide this patch as a merge request on Salsa, after running
> local tests to ensure it builds cleanly on top of our codebase and does
> indeed avoid the reported crash.

Thanks for the heads up! Please feel free to do a team upload/NMU to fix this.

Regards,
Vincent