Why is this considered a 'bug', and why does this need fixing at all? Opening books are (often very) bulky architecture-independent data, which does not belong in binary packages. That holds both for XBoard and for GNU Chess. Books should go in their own package.
In addition, XBoard is not dependent on any engine for handling opening books; it can handle such books directly. The user just has to give the filename of the book (through a file-browse dialog, if desired) and tick a checkbox to enable its use. Having engines handle the book is a stupid way to do it, because then you still wouldn't have a book when you want to use another engine. H.G. Muller upstream XBoard developer -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debian/Ubuntu Games Team, which is subscribed to xboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1128006 Title: Xboard default engine Fairymax does not use any opening book Status in “xboard” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello. I just noticed that behavior. It could be fixed by defaulting to gnuchess with the opening book packages or supplying fairymax a default opening book. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: xboard 4.6.2-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-6.13-generic 3.8.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Feb 17 13:13:55 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-29 (19 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xboard UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xboard/+bug/1128006/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-ubuntu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-ubuntu
