On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:58 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> I'm sorry, but this is not an adequare resolution for this bug for a
> package in main. 

I just revisited the bug report and I fully agree with you. The package
really should be in contrib instead and possibly download the files in
the postinst script with a warning attached to it.

However, a quick glance shows that there is also some basic Westwood
Online support in the package, and albeit still experimental it seems as
it is usable without non-free data files. I don't know if this is really
usable, though.

It is difficult to find information about pvpgn-support. The mpq files
seem to contain executables used to patch the client. Those *might* be
written by PvPGN developers, to remove the version check from the
clients. OTOH it could also be that those are modified Blizzard
binaries. I was not able to extract it from the MPQ with the Windows
tools I ran with wine. The only binary blobs in which I am really not
able to look into are the icons*.bni in pvpgn-support. From the name it
sounds that it is likely that they contain Blizzard's works but it is
just guessing.

 16379 2004-01-22 23:53 icons.bni
 24555 2004-01-22 23:53 icons_STAR.bni
 36931 2004-01-22 23:53 icons-WAR3.bni

At least the package got a new maintainer now, as my upload was a QA one
to prevent the removal of the package due to RC bugs. Still there was a
wrong judgement for which I apologise.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern



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