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Date:      Sun, 3 Feb 2013 13:20:01 GMT
From:      Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/174819: games/exult: Update to 1.4.9
Message-ID:  <201302031320.r13DK1Bj099187@freefall.freebsd.org>

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From: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
To: green dog <fiziologus@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/174819: games/exult: Update to 1.4.9
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 15:17:34 +0200

 On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:24:00PM +0400, green dog wrote:
 > > I don't think it's a good idea to update port to 1.4.9rc1. It's old
 > > and has a critical bug 'that causes random objects in the games to
 > >  disappear forever'.
 > > (see http://exult.sourceforge.net , news entry from 11 February 2011).
 > reported on the forum like this bug is related to the work of a garbage
 > collector, and thus depends on the system (for example, I did not find
 > posts that were able to reproduce it).
 Perhaps, but exact cause of this bug was not found, it assumed to be fixed
 in recent (newer than 1.4.9rc1) snapshots.
 http://exult.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?f=1&i=358191&t=358191 :
 "We assume it has been fixed. With the not sure way to trigger it we don't
 know for sure. We haven't had any negative report though ;)"
 
 I propose to wait a little longer before update because (from thread above):
 "There's still some bugs that we want to fix and recent changes need play
 tested to make sure that we didn't break anything."
 
 
 -- 
 Alex



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