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

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* koanhead <674783 at bugs.launchpad.net> [2010-11-13 22:17:59 CET]:
> Thanks for letting me know, I will try installing wesnoth-old and see
> how that goes; the update seems to have  removed the old version.

 Right. wesnoth-1.8 now comes with an unversioned package that will
always pull in the latest stable release. Unfortunately this removes
wesnoth version 1.6 because that one didn't had the versioned packages,
so if one wants to keep both wesnoth versions around, the wesnoth
package itself needs to stick at 1.6 and wesnoth-1.8 has to get pulled
in explicitly through the wesnoth-1.8 package.

 Unfortunately there isn't a more helpful approach to the switch. At
least now it's possible to install them side-by-side, which wasn't
possible from 1.4 to 1.6 :)

 Enjoy!
Rhonda

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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".