I'm forwarding a mail from the original submitter that he sent directly to me instead of to the bug address.
----- Forwarded message from ShakaZ <shakaz2...@yahoo.fr> ----- From: ShakaZ <shakaz2...@yahoo.fr> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:37:21 +0000 (GMT) To: Patrik Fimml <pat...@fimml.at> Subject: Re : Bug#514622 - Eboard/Crafty book.bin Hello Patrick. Indeed it seems the issue comes from the crafty book.bin & book.bin packages. On the official ftp site (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/) those files date back to 30/1/2007. At that time the latest stable version of crafty was 21.6, which is higher than the 20.17 version the error mesage complains about. After further investigation i managed to get the book.bin & books.bin files provided on the ftp site to work. The book.bin & books.bin files provided by the crafty-books-medium debian package are dated from 04/03/2007. They should work according to that date, however crafty reports them as outdated. So i replaced those files located in /var/lib/crafty by those from the ftp site. (Note : the book files on the ftp server are not that satisfying as they are much lighter that those provided from the crafty-book-xxx packages) Then i took a peek at the ~/.eboard/eboard.conf file. This file contains bookmarks to the chess engines used by eboard, along with some parameters to configure them. What i noticed is that for the crafty engine those bookmarks are not generated correctly. For instance a bookmark to crafty with options (default engine time set, ponder=no), then the bookpath= variable i empty. The same bookmark but with ponder set to ye reults in a correct bookpath variable. This variable also seems to be inconsistently set as from one bookmark to the other it varies between these two options : bookpath=/var/lib/crafty bookpath=/home/shakaz/.eboard Both work so that's not a big issue. So to me the procedure to solve the issue seem to be : 1. Rebuild up-to-date crafty-books-medium, crafty-books-medtosmall and crafty-books-small packages. Either by asking the author to provide new book files or by creating new ones as explained here : http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/craftydoc.html 2. Fix eboard so that the bookmarks to the crafty engine are consistent with regard to the bookpath variable. Best regards, ShakaZ
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