Dear release-managers, please consider the attached diff for rott in stable. I know it's "only" contrib/games, but anyway... ;)
The rott package is able to download the required (but non-free) game shareware data from the publisher's web server in the postinst script if the user wishes so. However, the servers have proven unreliable and users keep complaining about failed downloads, e.g. #660266. We have thus put a copy of the zip file on pkg-games.alioth.d.o. The code is not in unstable, because we have decided to drop the downloading in the postinst script in favor of using game-data-packager. The latter already uses pkg-games.alioth.d.o to download the shareware zip file. - Fabian
diff -Nru rott-1.1.1/debian/changelog rott-1.1.1/debian/changelog --- rott-1.1.1/debian/changelog 2010-06-03 07:38:58.000000000 +0200 +++ rott-1.1.1/debian/changelog 2012-02-20 10:45:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +rott (1.1.1-3.1+squeeze1) squeeze; urgency=low + + * As a last resort, try to download the shareware data files + from pkg-games.alioth.debian.org (Closes: ##660266). + + -- Fabian Greffrath <fabian+deb...@greffrath.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:45:40 +0100 + rott (1.1.1-3.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru rott-1.1.1/debian/rott.postinst rott-1.1.1/debian/rott.postinst --- rott-1.1.1/debian/rott.postinst 2009-08-04 14:23:48.000000000 +0200 +++ rott-1.1.1/debian/rott.postinst 2012-02-20 10:41:10.000000000 +0100 @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ SHAREZIP="1rott13.zip" SHAREURL1="ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/share"; SHAREURL2="ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/pub/share"; +SHAREURL3="http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org"; SHAREMD5="0fafd6b629eab80278fc726e31f9cf41" DOCDIR="/usr/share/doc/rott" @@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ if [ ! -e ${SHAREDIR}/${SHAREZIP} ]; then wget --progress=dot --directory-prefix ${SHAREDIR} -c ${SHAREURL1}/${SHAREZIP} || \ wget --progress=dot --directory-prefix ${SHAREDIR} -c ${SHAREURL2}/${SHAREZIP} || \ + wget --progress=dot --directory-prefix ${SHAREDIR} -c ${SHAREURL3}/${SHAREZIP} || \ echo "rott: Download of shareware data files failed!" >&2 fi
