SuperTux 0.3.5a fails to parse repository file index-0_4_0.nfo

[Grumbel]

 [WARNING] /build/supertux-f3Xlnc/supertux-0.3.5a/src/addon/downloader.cpp:354 Exception in Downloader: Problem when reading Add-on list: Problem when parsing addoninfo: not a valid Addon::Type: languagepack

SuperTux 0.3.5a is the version shipped with Ubuntu15.10

[brmbrmcar]

Why is it getting it from there instead of index-0_3_5.nfo?

[LMH0013]

My guess is because after the 0.3.5 release, the index was changed to 0.4.0 in anticipation of the next release. Nobody caught and reversed it for 0.3.5a.

[tobbi]

That's exactly what happened.

[maxteufel]

That's what I was saying as well, as such this is an issue for the distro package managers, who should patch this in their releases. We can't magically change the 0.3.5a release anymore.

[Grumbel]

The distro maintainers can't do much, as they don't have a correct .nfo to point to. It would also be a waste of time to fix 0.3.5a when they could just update to 0.4.0 instead.

Possible solutions: Remove language packs from 0.4.0.nfo, put them in 0.4.1.nfo, update 0.4.1 to point to new .nfo, breaks language packs in 0.4.0 obviously, but fixes 0.3.5a.

Alternative solution: Forget about 0.3.5a, was a dev-snapshot anyway and just redirect users to 0.4.0

For the future:

• make repository_url configurable by the user (currently hardcoded)
• allow more then one repository url
• add a 'news box' at the start of the game that we can use to display text to the user to inform them of new releases and such

[maxteufel]

The distro maintainers can't do much, as they don't have a correct .nfo to point to.

I do think index-0_3_5.nfo should work with 0.3.5a.

Alternative solution: Forget about 0.3.5a, was a dev-snapshot anyway and just redirect users to 0.4.0

I like this idea, however, distros with a big userbase (Ubuntu, Fedora) packaged 0.3.5a anyway.

For the future:

• make repository_url configurable by the user (currently hardcoded)
• allow more then one repository url
• add a 'news box' at the start of the game that we can use to display text to the user to inform them of new releases and such

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