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 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 seamlessly continue

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 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 fini

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 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 least to load l

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 think it is an outdated and deprecated format.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

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 think it is an outdated and deprecated format.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 reaso

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 > 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 f

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 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. > | We already support xz compress

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 m