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NEWS for bsd-games and bsd-games-non-free
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=========================================
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This file contains a summary of changes in each version of bsd-games
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and bsd-games-non-free after 1.3. For fuller details, see ChangeLog
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and ChangeLog.0.
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As well as reading this summary, it is a good idea to reread the
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INSTALL file whenever installing a new version, to check for any
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changes in installation instructions. Packagers should also reread
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the PACKAGING file each version (or do a diff between the old and new
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versions of the package and read that).
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Version 2.5
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===========
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* New build system, using a single project Makefile (autogenerated)
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that includes makefile fragments from subdirectories, and uses GNU
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Make's automatic dependency generation to generate dependencies
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automatically, rather than recursive make. See Peter Miller's paper
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`Recursive Make Considered Harmful'
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<http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html>
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for reasons why this is better than recursive make. This should make
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no difference to normal users, but if you modify the sources note that
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you will need to rebuild from the top directory, and you may find that
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the dependencies are now accurate whereas formerly they were
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incomplete. The automatic dependency generation causes the build to
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start with about 300 `no such file or directory' warnings, which
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should be ignored: these refer to the dependency files which GNU Make
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will then automatically generate.
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* Should work with glibc 2.1 (at least, version 2.0.96 on x86, which
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is what I've tested). See the ChangeLog for an explanation of the
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problem previous releases had with glibc 2.1.
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* Boggle is now in the main bsd-games package - Paul Janzen checked
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with the original author, who confirmed that the BSD licence
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superseded the old non-free one. bsd-games-non-free now only contains
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rogue.
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* Other minor changes.
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Version 2.4
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===========
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* Various minor bug fixes and improvements (some from OpenBSD, thanks
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to Paul Janzen <pjanzen@foatdi.harvard.edu>).
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* Sail directory can now be non-world-accessible (mode 2770 root.games
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or similar). This may improve security, since it means users cannot
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tamper with sync files their sail process creates.
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* Rogue buffer overrun fix. An audit is still needed.
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* dm now ignores the environment variable TZ when deciding at what
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times games can be played. (This only affects you if you are using dm
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to control at what times games can be played, and not then if you are
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using libc 5.4.45 or 5.4.46 (which completely ignore TZ in setgid
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programs rather than checking the validity of any filename given as
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glibc does).)
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* All games updated from NetBSD-current of 1998-08-30 (minor changes;
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some more of my changes have been merged back into NetBSD).
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Version 2.3
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===========
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* A possible temporary file security bug in sail fixed.
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* Countmail is back, with a licence (apparently the standard NetBSD
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one), since it has one in NetBSD-current of 1998-08-19.
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* All the other games updated from NetBSD-current of 1998-08-19 (minor
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changes).
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* Other minor changes.
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* Version 2.2 was never properly released, since the upload to sunsite
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was truncated and the sail hole was found before the truncated file
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had been removed or the release put in place on tsx-11.
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Version 2.2
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===========
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* Another bug-fix release.
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* This version includes security fixes from OpenBSD.
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* This release is believed year 2000 compliant. Please see the year
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2000 statement in the file YEAR2000 for details and disclaimer.
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* Paranoia has been removed from bsd-games-non-free, since it has no
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clear licence at all, and being derived from a magazine article it is
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not clear it was ever legally distributable. Anyone wanting to
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resurrect it in a separate package would need to investigate the
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copyright on the magazine article as well as getting a proper licence
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from the author.
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* Countmail has been removed from bsd-games because of the lack of a
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licence.
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* All other games updated from NetBSD-current of 1998-07-27 (very
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minor changes).
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* Default paths now follow FHS 2.0 - enter the paths you want when
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running configure if you are using the FSSTND 1.2.
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* You can now easily specify games you don't want built when running
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configure.
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* All games that can invoke pagers handle PAGER in the way specified
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by POSIX.2 for standard programs that invoke pagers.
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* Rogue bug fix from Bill Lash <lash@tellabs.com>.
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* Other bug fixes.
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* Information for those packaging bsd-games or bsd-games-non-free for
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a Linux distribution is in the file PACKAGING.
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Version 2.1
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===========
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* This is mainly a bug-fix release.
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* All games updated to NetBSD-current as of 1998-03-21 (except for
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paranoia). The changes are mostly minor, replacing warning fixes
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local to bsd-games with ones now in NetBSD.
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* Some bugs fixed, and most of the additional warnings given by the
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current egcs snapshot fixed as well.
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* Configuration / installation change - to strip the installed
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binaries, use `make install-strip' instead of `make install'; this
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replaces the configuration option for `make install' to strip the
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installed binaries.
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* Manpages for wargames and paranoia, thanks to Joey Hess
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<joeyh@kitenet.net>.
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* Battlestar save file name can be chosen at runtime, and defaults to
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`.Bstar' instead of `Bstar' for cleaner directory listings.
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Version 2.0
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===========
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* All games updated to NetBSD-current as of 1997-12-12 (except for
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paranoia). Hunt and boggle are now based on the NetBSD versions.
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* Many bugs fixed.
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* Added countmail.
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* Better libc6 support - adventure should now work.
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* No longer uses libbsd with libc5.
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* Nearly warning-free compile with -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes
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-Wmissing-prototypes.
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* Hunt now uses internet domain sockets (untested).
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Version 1.5
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===========
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* All games updated to NetBSD-current as of 1997-07-12 (except for
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bog, hunt and paranoia).
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* Added adventure, banner, dm, phantasia, pig, quiz, random and rogue.
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(Rogue is in bsd-games-non-free only).
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* BETA level libc6 support. (It may not yet compile, but should be
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nearer to compiling with libc6 than version 1.4.)
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Version 1.4
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===========
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* Fish, fortune and hangman updated to the versions in NetBSD-current.
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* Public release.
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Version 1.3.4beta
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=================
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* Bug fix in backgammon.
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* Backgammon, battlestar, bcd, caesar, canfield, cribbage and factor
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updated to the versions in NetBSD-current. As a side-effect, caesar
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now installs a `rot13' script.
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* Tetris score file now defaults to tetris-bsd.scores for consistency
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with using tetris-bsd in the names of files installed from tetris.
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(The rationale of this is that there is more than one Tetris game and
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this one should not presume to be the one that takes the
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/usr/games/tetris name; that should be a decision for the
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administrator, who can reasonably install more than one Tetris game.)
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Nor should other files such as the man page or score file potentially
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conflict with other Tetris games. Of course, you can configure the
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package to use the old score file name (or any other) if you want.
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Version 1.3.3beta
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=================
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* Non-free package now contains all the files required to build on its
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own. It can now be built on its own, or in the same source tree as
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bsd-games; the files that appear in both are exact duplicates.
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* Bug-fixes in backgammon and sail.
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Version 1.3.2beta
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=================
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* Non-free games (bog and paranoia) now distributed separately -
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unpack both source packages together before configuring if you want to
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build them.
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* Configuration script improved: now the default list of games to
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build is the list of subdirectories, and you can configure the exact
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paths to score files and data files for individual games using it - so
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they are always correctly substituted in the manpages.
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* Bug-fixes in backgammon, snake and worm.
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* Arithmetic and atc updated to the versions in NetBSD-current.
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Version 1.3.1beta
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=================
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* Now works with libc 5 ;-).
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* Debian patches from Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org> mostly
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integrated up to Debian version 1.3-7.
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* New ports of tetris and gomoku, thanks to David Frey
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<david@eos.lugs.ch>.
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* Distributed as source only.
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* Many bug-fixes to battlestar.
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* Configuration script, now substitutes correct paths in manpages.
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* Defaults hopefully closer to FSSTND/FHS.
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* Builds with ncurses by default. Curses/termcap are obsolete and no
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longer supported (not that this package is supported anyway ;-)).
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