Bug#1134718: angband: The .desktop file in angbad has an incorrect Exec line that breaks many DEs. But is fixed in 4.2.6.

Sean Day spicerxd at purelymail.com
Thu Apr 23 15:52:11 BST 2026


Package: angband
Version: 1:4.2.5+dfsg1-3
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

The Exec line in angband's .desktop file uses unescaped characters.
Which most Desktop Environments will catch as an error and not allow you to open the game from their menus.
But it seems they fixed this in commit 3aee474, which is in release 4.2.6.

Thank you,
Sean Day

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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 angband depends on:
ii  angband-data         1:4.2.5+dfsg1-3
ii  libc6                2.41-12+deb13u2
ii  libncursesw6         6.5+20250216-2
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0        2.32.4+dfsg-1
ii  libsdl2-image-2.0-0  2.8.8+dfsg-1
ii  libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0  2.8.1+dfsg-2
ii  libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0    2.24.0+dfsg-2
ii  libtinfo6            6.5+20250216-2
ii  libx11-6             2:1.8.12-1

angband recommends no packages.

Versions of packages angband suggests:
pn  angband-audio  <none>

-- no debconf information



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