[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 674783] Re: Misplaced savegame files after update to 1.8

[Gerfried Fuchs]

Please be notified that the wesnoth 1.6 branch and the wesnoth 1.8
branch are incompatible with each other. You can't continue games that
were started with 1.6 in 1.8 because of deeper changes to balancing and
the campaigns themself. That's the reason why I actually started the
approach to make it possible to have the different stable wesnoth
releases installable side-by-side. See also the explenation in
/usr/share/doc/wesnoth-1.8/NEWS.Debian.gz about this.

Either install wesnoth (1.6) back and continue your games in there, or
start the campaign from new with 1.8 (and use your knowledge about good
approaches to the scenarios ;)).

Enjoy!
Rhonda

** Changed in: wesnoth-1.8 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Misplaced savegame files after update to 1.8
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Status in “wesnoth-1.8” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: wesnoth-1.8

I fired up Battle for  Wesnoth today after a few weeks away and found that my saved games had evaporated. I had noticed that the menu entry for Wesnoth was labeled 1.8, but thought nothing of it. Then I went looking in my ~ to see if the files were still there, and they were- in a directory labelled ~/.wesnoth1.6/saves - so I chalked it up to an update that didn't go quite right. There isn't any ~/.wesnoth1.8 directory, so I'm not sure where to relocate the data that was located in ~./wesnoth1.6.
OK, that's not correct. Immediately after writing that, I tried to mkdir ~/.wesnoth1.8 and was told that the directory exists. Refreshed the Nautilus pane and saw it. I don't know what happened there or what I did wrong, but now I have copied the contents of ~/.wesnoth1.6/saves tp ~/.wesnoth1.8/saves and the saved games show up now in the Load Game dialog within Wesnoth. Tried loading a saved game and it worked okay, with a dialog saying "This saved game is from a different version, load it anyway?"


1) Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release:	10.04
2) wesnoth:  Installed: 1:1.8.5-1~lucid1
3) Expected seamless upgrade behavior from 1.6 to 1.8. Maybe something has changed with the savegame format of which I'm unaware?
4) Instead save files were "lost".