Your message dated Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:34:59 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1130332: fixed in rocksndiamonds 4.4.1.3+dfsg-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1130332,
regarding rocksndiamonds: installation of Rocksndiamonds-the-game from its
source-and-binary tarball is incomplete
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1130332: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1130332
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Package: rocksndiamonds
Version: 4.4.1.3+dfsg-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
The Debian postinst script for rocksndiamonds downloads and unpacks the
upstream author's distribution tarball, discarding parts which are not needed
(source, and the author's built binary, in favor of Debian's). This is
reasonable.
In the process, it discards a few files which are actually needed. The code in
question is:
if ($section =~ /Base games/i)
{
cmd_execute "cp -r $tempdir/$topdir/$_ $game_dir"
for (qw(graphics levels music sounds));
}
which causes it to copy those four top-level directories of the tarball. It
should also copy directories 'docs' and 'conf'; therefore it would *probably*
be sufficient to change to:
for (qw(graphics levels music sounds docs conf));
(and the corresponding line at the end of clean_downloads_dir()).
'conf' contains one file at the moment: a database of game controller
information. Without this, the game cannot properly take advantage of gaming
hardware on the user's system (joysticks, etc.)
'docs' contains in-game documentation, particularly for the level editor.
Level editing is an integral part of the overall game experience. Without the
docs directory, users can still edit levels, but descriptions of the game
elements are absent. (This is the reason I marked 'important'.)
Answering the questions in the template:
What led to it? Installing the .deb package and examining the results.
What did I expect? Fully installed game with all original features (missing:
element docs in the editor, game controller config).
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Two other buglets which I should report separately, but will state here. If
the person picking up the primary bug doesn't want to deal with these, email me
a Sternly Worded Note to get official bugs:
1. the URL recorded for 'rnd_jue', 'http://www.jb-line.de/hp/rnd_jue-v8.zip',
is out of date. I chased it around on the author's site and found it at
'https://jb-line.de/rnd17/rnd_jue-v8.zip'; another choice is a Wayback Machine
link,
https://web.archive.org/web/20230702180255/http://www.jb-line.de/hp/rnd_jue-v8.zip
-- those never seem like a great choice, but given how it keeps jumping around
on the author's site, maybe the right on in this case?
2. in extracting 'r-structure.zip', a single example level (and its
corresponding configuration files) is lost. This is the subdirectory starting
at 'levels/Examples/example_richard_kleber/' inside the zip file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.17.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/14 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages rocksndiamonds depends on:
ii 7zip 26.00+dfsg-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.92
ii libc6 2.42-13
ii libsdl2-2.0-0 2.32.10+dfsg-6
ii libsdl2-image-2.0-0 2.8.8+dfsg-2
ii libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 2.8.1+dfsg-5
ii libsdl2-net-2.0-0 2.2.0+dfsg-4
ii perl 5.40.1-7
ii unzip 6.0-29
ii wget 1.25.0-2
ii zip 3.0-15
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-3
rocksndiamonds recommends no packages.
rocksndiamonds suggests no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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Source: rocksndiamonds
Source-Version: 4.4.1.3+dfsg-2
Done: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rocksndiamonds, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> (supplier of updated rocksndiamonds package)
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:12:25 +0100
Source: rocksndiamonds
Architecture: source
Version: 4.4.1.3+dfsg-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Closes: 1130332
Changes:
rocksndiamonds (4.4.1.3+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Install configuration files and documentation included in level
sets. Closes: #1130332.
* Update all download URLs to their canonical location. Thanks to Bela
Lubkin for checking all these!
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