Is it a bug, or a misfeature?

[Timo Pietilä]

In more technical terms... Walking into a wall should NOT occupy a turn.

It doesn't, unless you are confused. Haven't done for a while. What you are seeing is a bug in your version.

[saw]

It doesn't, unless you are confused. Haven't done for a while. What you are seeing is a bug in your version.

I went into synaptic package manager - my installed version is 3.1.1.1626-1. When I go into "downloads" here, I find a 3.2, which synaptic doesn't show as the most recent version.

Does anyone know how the Ubuntu repository gets updated? My version went up to 3.1.1 from 3.0.9 when I installed v10.1 of Ubuntu, so someone must be making changes at some point.

Any idea on how to get the packaged version updated? (I'm so not smart enough to do anything like that myself)

[saw]

Zorak. Is he a bug, or a misfeature? I have a sudden urge to change my profile pic.

Yeah?? Try it. You put up a space-ghost pic and I'll blast you into next week! The lone locust of the apocalypse will get totally medieval on your ass!

And as for those dumb kids and their stupid monkey... it'll be death by slow torture!

{suddenly I have the urge to write a really nasty x-rated bit of fanfic...}

[Zikke]

My favorite episode of Space Ghost was when Zorak had a mini baby Zorak. So funny!


Okay back to Angband...

[Magnate]

I went into synaptic package manager - my installed version is 3.1.1.1626-1. When I go into "downloads" here, I find a 3.2, which synaptic doesn't show as the most recent version.

Does anyone know how the Ubuntu repository gets updated? My version went up to 3.1.1 from 3.0.9 when I installed v10.1 of Ubuntu, so someone must be making changes at some point.

Any idea on how to get the packaged version updated? (I'm so not smart enough to do anything like that myself)

Ubuntu auto-converts a load of Debian packages directly from the Debian archives, and angband is one such. So keep an eye on the Debian repository (http://packages.debian.org/sid/angband) and whatever is in there will eventually migrate into Ubuntu some weeks later.

[saw]

Ubuntu auto-converts a load of Debian packages directly from the Debian archives, and angband is one such. So keep an eye on the Debian repository (http://packages.debian.org/sid/angband) and whatever is in there will eventually migrate into Ubuntu some weeks later.

Well... it's been 4 months... I added the debian repository, and it's not seen as an update... {sigh}

[Magnate]

Well... it's been 4 months... I added the debian repository, and it's not seen as an update... {sigh}

Er, it's not yet two months since the 3.1.2v2 package I submitted was accepted into Debian, so give them a chance. That said, I have no idea how Ubuntu works, so I don't know if it needs any human intervention to do the conversion.

[saw]

Er, it's not yet two months since the 3.1.2v2 package I submitted was accepted into Debian, so give them a chance. That said, I have no idea how Ubuntu works, so I don't know if it needs any human intervention to do the conversion.

I was going by the source date here, which is Feb

[Ycombinator]

Any idea on how to get the packaged version updated? (I'm so not smart enough to do anything like that myself)

Just grab Debian package sources and build it in Ubuntu, it's trivial and gives you all benefits of package management.
First, run

sudo apt-get build-dep angband

in console, this will download and install development packages necessary to build Angband from sources.
Then download these 3 files from packages.debian.org:

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/angband/angband_3.1.2v2-2.dsc

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/angband/angband_3.1.2v2.orig.tar.gz

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/angband/angband_3.1.2v2-2.diff.gz

Unpack them by typing

dpkg-source -x angband_3.1.2v2-2.dsc

cd to the created directory "angband-3.1.2v2" and type

debuild binary

This will produce ready to install *.deb package in the parent directory.

[Magnate]

I was going by the source date here, which is Feb

Yeah. If you'd like to produce Ubuntu packages more quickly, be my guest.

[saw]

Just grab Debian package sources and build it in Ubuntu, it's trivial and gives you all benefits of package management.
First, run

sudo apt-get build-dep angband

First, thanks for those instructions - handy for someone who's learning Linux like me...

Unfortunately, the sudo line gets me :

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for angband

Thoughts?

[Ycombinator]

Unfortunately, the sudo line gets me :

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for angband

Thoughts?

You need source repositories enabled in sources.list. You can enable them in Synaptic or by editing sources.list directly, but here is dependency list from 3.1.2v2 control file:

autoconf automake cvs libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev 
libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libglade2-dev

Install these packages, build-essential and devscripts.

[saw]

You need source repositories enabled in sources.list. You can enable them in Synaptic or by editing sources.list directly, but here is dependency list from 3.1.2v2 control file:

autoconf automake cvs libncurses5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev 
libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-net1.2-dev libglade2-dev

Install these packages, build-essential and devscripts.

{sigh} Well... I got as far as the debuild, where it died again (debuild wasn't found). I tried to get that thorugh sudo apt-get install devscripts, only to have that fail dependencies.

I give up

Perhaps, some things are not meant to be - I shall find a potion to raise my "patience" score, and wait for the world to catch up

Thanks everyone - for all the help and pointers - it's very much appreciated!

[Ycombinator]

Well, unfortunately Launchpad PPA won't accept unmodified Debian package... This could be a handy distribution tool before latest V gets promoted to the official Ubuntu repos. Maybe someone with Lucid will be kind (and trustworthy) enough to build a package for you.

[Magnate]

Well, unfortunately Launchpad PPA won't accept unmodified Debian package... This could be a handy distribution tool before latest V gets promoted to the official Ubuntu repos. Maybe someone with Lucid will be kind (and trustworthy) enough to build a package for you.

Surely it's simpler to check out svn://rephial.org/angband/trunk and build it from that rather than try to build an Ubuntu package? The latter will get auto-built one day.