[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 277748] Re: Nexuiz demands a user to update to a new version

[Gerfried Fuchs]

This actually is an issue in the nexuiz-data package, not nexuiz.
Furthermore, I just yesterday uploaded a version to Debian unstable
(2.4.2-2) which includes a patch to disable the version check. It is
pretty small (just some #if 0 and #endif in one file), so you might want
to use that patch for all releases of nexuiz-data in Ubuntu.

Please also notice that you might want to also adopt the small change I
did to debian/rules about moving the patch-stamp dependency from the
build target to the build-stamp target to ensure that patching is done
*before* building.

Find attached the patch that I pushed into Debian stable which is a
minimized version of the patch that I pushed into unstable where I also
did some other small changes, but I guess you get the idea and can
figure out which way you want to go.

** Attachment added: "interdiff from the Debian stable upload"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28238647/nexuiz-data_2.4.2-1%2Blenny1.interdiff

** Changed in: nexuiz (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Nexuiz demands a user to update to a new version
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277748
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Status in “nexuiz” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: nexuiz

Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release:	8.04

nexuiz:
  Installed: 2.4-1
  Candidate: 2.4-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4-1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When you start Nexuiz (freshly installed via Ubuntu repositories in this case), it seems to check for an update and continues to nag the user with a yellow rectangle which says something like "Upgrade to Nexuiz 2.4.2 now!". While this probably is a good thing for online gaming compatibility etc., it should probably be disabled like in Firefox or Warsow.