Package: xboard Version: 4.5~git20100118-1 Severity: important Tags: experimental
xboard assumes that fairymax is installed. When you start xboard with no options it eats a lot of cpu and then dies. I don't know debian packaging policies by heart but i do not think that a program should assume that a recommended application is installed. u...@host$ xboard -debug StartChildProcess (dir=".") fairymax xboard: Failed to start first chess program fairymax on localhost: fairymax: No such file or directory xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe xboard: Error writing to first chess program: Broken pipe -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc5-git8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xboard depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.7.1 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.11-0exp7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-18 Xaw3d widget set Versions of packages xboard recommends: pn fairymax <none> (no description available) ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.1 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.1 75 dpi fonts for X Versions of packages xboard suggests: ii aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 1.0.1-7 Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f ii eterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.9.5-2 Enlightened Terminal Emulator ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.30.0-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic ii mrxvt [x-terminal-emulator] 0.5.4-1 lightweight multi-tabbed X termina ii rxvt-beta [x-terminal-emulato 2.7.10-6 VT102 terminal emulator for the X ii terminator [x-terminal-emulat 0.93-1 multiple GNOME terminals in one wi ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 256-1 X terminal emulator -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
