[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#839083: flightgear: Missing required data files for version 2016.3.1

[Jaap Keuter]

Package: flightgear
Version: 1:2016.3.1+dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading from 2016.2.1 to 2016.3.1 and launching flightgear through FGRun you are
greeted by a dialog stating: "The requested location '/usr/share/games/flightgear' does
not appear to be a valid set of data files for FlightGear".

Now flightgear seems to depend on flightgear-data-all (>=2016.3.1~) [not m68k, ppc64, sh4, sparc64]
but that doesn't seem to exist, since looking at that package there is no such version, nor an 
indication this is coming (nothing to see in the Developer Info for that package).

All in all, apart from hacking the version file(?), or downloading data from external source, as
offered through this dialog, seem to be the available workarounds. The solution would be to upload
the proper data sets, IMHO.

Kind regards.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages flightgear depends on:
ii  flightgear-data-all       1:2016.2.1+dfsg-1
ii  freeglut3                 2.8.1-2
ii  libc6                     2.23-5
ii  libcurl3-gnutls           7.50.1-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.10.10-1
ii  libexpat1                 2.2.0-1
ii  libflite1                 2.0.0-release-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.1.1-11
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  12.0.3-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2.1
ii  libgsm1                   1.0.13-4
ii  libhtsengine1             1.08-1
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libopenal1                1:1.17.2-1
ii  libopenscenegraph100v5    3.2.3+dfsg1-2+b1
ii  libopenthreads20          3.2.3+dfsg1-1+b1
ii  libplib1                  1.8.5-7
ii  libpng16-16               1.6.24-2
ii  libqt5core5a              5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5gui5                5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libqt5widgets5            5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libspeexdsp1              1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.14.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                6.1.1-11
ii  libudev1                  231-4
ii  libudns0                  0.4-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxi6                    2:1.7.6-1
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.1.2-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages flightgear recommends:
pn  flightgear-phi  <none>

flightgear suggests no packages.

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