Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 24.09.2012 09:52, schrieb Simon McVittie: Not intentional, patches welcome. I could not even reproduce this. When I start the game with an empty ~/.openarena and switch Automatic Downloading from off to on, the warning appears. Then I exit the game and restart it. Automatic Downloading

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-25 Thread Markus Koschany
On Tue, 25. Sep 09:56 Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Am 24.09.2012 09:52, schrieb Simon McVittie: Not intentional, patches welcome. I could not even reproduce this. When I start the game with an empty ~/.openarena and switch Automatic Downloading from off to on, the warning

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/09/12 13:44, Markus Koschany wrote: Indeed it isn't reproducible with a clean installation of OpenArena. You have to connect to a heavily modded server like Gem's InstaGib server. Playing on a modded server with auto-download turned on can replace the UI with arbitrary bytecode - for

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-25 Thread Markus Koschany
On Tue, 25. Sep 15:53 Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: On 25/09/12 13:44, Markus Koschany wrote: Indeed it isn't reproducible with a clean installation of OpenArena. You have to connect to a heavily modded server like Gem's InstaGib server. Playing on a modded server with

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 14.09.2012 21:38, schrieb Markus Koschany: I took the liberty to download the experimental version and i think the solution is good. The only thing i noticed was, that if cl_allowDownload was already set to 1 the warning wouldn't be visible, no matter how many times you switch between enabled

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/09/12 08:31, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 14.09.2012 21:38, schrieb Markus Koschany: if cl_allowDownload was already set to 1 the warning wouldn't be visible, no matter how many times you switch between enabled and disabled. You have to restart OpenArena with auto-downloading set to 0

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-14 Thread Simon McVittie
-devel-games: this summarizes feedback from the bug, which was pretty similar to what you said: everyone wants a this is not safe, do it anyway? [Y/N] prompt, rather than knocking out cl_allowDownload altogether. Please reply to both the list and the bug. On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 at 15:42:21 +0200,

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-14 Thread Markus Koschany
On Fri, 14. Sep 10:47 Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: [snip] It's a pity there isn't a distinction between executable and non-executable game content - if you could auto-download PK3s, but those PK3s were flagged as not to be searched for QVMs somehow, then everything would be secure -

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 04.09.2012 15:42, schrieb Markus Koschany: * Automatic downloading is disabled on the first start thus OpenArena is secure by default. * You could also move the menu option for auto downloading to the bottom and improve the description. Warning: Enabling of auto

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-04 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: ioquake3 Version: 1.36+svn2287-1 Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel-ga...@lists.debian.org I am considering removing the cl_allowDownload option from the ioquake3 client, effectively forcing its value to disabled

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-04 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi, i've been running an openarena server for 6 months now and although i'm just an ordinary user i wanted to share my thoughts on this bug. I agree with your conclusions and how you contrast the pros and cons. I personally could live without automatic downloading. But the question is if other

Bug#686648: ioquake3: consider disallowing auto-downloading in wheezy

2012-09-04 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, first off, big thanks to everybody involved in maintaining ioquake. You've done a great job! On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:42:21PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: In practice this would force players to download custom maps and even new versions of base maps manually from more or less