Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Jacob Nevins
Package: freeciv-server Version: 2.5.0-1 I haven't tested this at all, I'm afraid, but noticed this in the changelog of the new Freeciv packages in experimental: | - Remove libbz2-dev from Build-Depends. | We already support xz compression which is a superior compression format. I think this

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 2 May 2015 at 11:52, Jacob Nevins jacobn+deb...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Package: freeciv-server Version: 2.5.0-1 I haven't tested this at all, I'm afraid, but noticed this in the changelog of the new Freeciv packages in experimental: | - Remove libbz2-dev from Build-Depends. |

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Jacob Nevins
indeed I deliberately dropped support for bz2 compression because I think it is an outdated and deprecated format. [...] Debian's Freeciv package in stable is not affected and those who have old savegames are able to convert them to gz or xz simply by recompressing. I don't see a reason to

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Markus Koschany
On 02.05.2015 16:05, Jacob Nevins wrote: indeed I deliberately dropped support for bz2 compression because I think it is an outdated and deprecated format. [...] Debian's Freeciv package in stable is not affected and those who have old savegames are able to convert them to gz or xz simply

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Markus Koschany
On 02.05.2015 12:46, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 May 2015 at 11:52, Jacob Nevins jacobn+deb...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Package: freeciv-server Version: 2.5.0-1 I haven't tested this at all, I'm afraid, but noticed this in the changelog of the new Freeciv packages in experimental: |

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 2 May 2015 at 17:56, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: only old savegames are affected. I think this (the word 'only') is the point we disagree about. Are you going to document it so that User should not upgrade from Jessie to Stretch before finishing current games of Freeciv. (or at

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 2 May 2015 at 21:24, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: What about savegames from 2.2, 2.3 and so on, they all need to be converted by hand but that shouldn't be too difficult. True. To clarify: I'm not so worried about old old savegames, but as a user I would expect that I can

Bug#784019: freeciv: removal of bz2 support = inability to load old savegames?

2015-05-02 Thread Markus Koschany
On 02.05.2015 17:43, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 May 2015 at 17:56, Markus Koschany a...@gambaru.de wrote: only old savegames are affected. I think this (the word 'only') is the point we disagree about. Are you going to document it so that User should not upgrade from Jessie to Stretch