Note that xboard supports two kind of piece symbols; monochrome bitmaps, (as seen in "xboard-broken") and pixmaps with outline borders (as seen in "xboard-fine"). Depending on a compile-time switch set by the configuration process on the presence of the XPM library, one or the other are used for the built-in symbols.
For some reason the xboard binary in this package has been compiled in absence of LIBXPM, unlike the binary included in the 4.2.7 packages. As a result, you get the (inferior) bitmaps as built-ins. The period at the beginning of the bitmap file names is a genuine bug; XBoard fails to create the proper name for bitmaps of pieces that are not participating in the variant that is selected at startup. It was already fixed in 4.4.0~alpha-7 and later. H.G. Muller, upstream developer of XBoard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
