Bug#495234: gnome-games: Request re-enabling 3D board for glChess

[Chris Burkhardt]

Package: gnome-games
Version: 1:2.22.3-3
Followup-For: Bug #495234

According to the gnome-games change log, this bug led to the removal of the 3D board from the Debian package of glChess:

* Disable 3D in glchess because it is broken (see #495234).
    + Remove the recommends on python-gtkglext1 and python-opengl.
    + 20_glchess_no3d.patch: disable the UI to setup 3D.

I just tried the version of glChess from the GNOME svn, and it works on my Lenny system. I don't know if it was fixed upstream, or if the bug only affects certain systems (graphics cards/drivers). I suspect the latter.

Could the changes introduced by 20_glchess_no3d.patch be reverted with the next update so that glChess once again will have a 3D interface? If some systems are still affected by this, then they can simply choose to use the 2D interface. No reason to disable it for everyone.

Thanks,
- Chris Burkhardt


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-games depends on:
ii  crafty                 20.14-1           state-of-the-art chess engine, com
ii  fruit                  2.1.dfsg-3        chess engine, to calculate chess m
ii  gnome-games-data       1:2.22.3-3        data files for the GNOME games
ii  gnuchess               5.07-5            Plays a game of chess, either agai
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.20-1         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  guile-1.8-libs         1.8.5+1-4.1       Main Guile libraries
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-9         GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libggz2                0.0.14.1-1        GGZ Gaming Zone: common utilities 
ii  libggzcore9            0.0.14.1-1        GGZ Gaming Zone: core client front
ii  libggzmod4             0.0.14.1-1        GGZ Gaming Zone: game frontend lib
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.20-1         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2             2.22.2-2lenny1    SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common        2.22.2-2lenny1    SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-9           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.4-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  python                 2.5.2-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-glade2          2.12.1-6          GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2          2.22.0-1          Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gnome2-desktop  2.22.0-2          Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk2            2.12.1-6          Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-games recommends:
ii  gnome-games-extra-data        2.22.0-1   games for the GNOME desktop (extra

Versions of packages gnome-games suggests:
ii  gnome-hearts                  0.3-2      The classic hearts card game for t

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