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

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* koanhead <674783 at bugs.launchpad.net> [2010-11-16 03:05:05 CET]:
> aptitude search wesnoth:
> 
> Package: wesnoth
> State: not installed
> Version: 1:1.8.5-1~lucid1
> 
> It doesn't appear from this that wesnoth-1.6 is available in Ubuntu's
> repositories.

 Actually it is available in lucid. See rather "apt-cache policy
wesnoth". You seem to have enabled lucid-backports and pulled in wesnoth
from there because the wesnoth package in lucid actually is at version
1:1.6.5-1. See the version overview on packages.ubuntu.com:
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/wesnoth>

 You will have to downgrade the wesnoth package explicitly to the
version from lucid. Given that you used aptitude search I hope you are
familiar with the aptitude interface. When you search for wesnoth in
there, press v to view all versions. Then press + on the 1.6.5 version
explicitly. It might well be that you'll have to then clear up some
broken packages through that move, and I hope it won't mark other
packages for removal, but that should be possible to work out without
too much trouble.

 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".