Bug#687617: [pre-approval] unblock: openarena with really auto-download? prompt
On 01/12/12 11:40, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:02:00 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: unanimous feedback from users and the Games Team was that they would prefer an are you sure? prompt when auto-downloading was enabled. Is the rest of the user interface generally translated? I might be willing to accept this patch, but not if it means regressing l10n. No, there's no l10n (or i18n for that matter). I'm not even sure whether the engine supports text outside US-ASCII :-( S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50bb30d7.3020...@debian.org
Bug#687617: [pre-approval] unblock: openarena with really auto-download? prompt
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:43:35 +, Simon McVittie wrote: On 01/12/12 11:40, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:02:00 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: unanimous feedback from users and the Games Team was that they would prefer an are you sure? prompt when auto-downloading was enabled. Is the rest of the user interface generally translated? I might be willing to accept this patch, but not if it means regressing l10n. No, there's no l10n (or i18n for that matter). I'm not even sure whether the engine supports text outside US-ASCII :-( In that case no objection. Let us know when this has spent a while in sid. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#687617: [pre-approval] unblock: openarena with really auto-download? prompt
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:02:00 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock The ioquake3 engine has an option to auto-download missing maps, mods etc. (PK3 files) from multiplayer servers. It is off by default, but many users and mod communities encourage switching it on, since it makes playing on modified or updated multiplayer servers considerably more straightforward. Switching it on is a security risk, because PK3 files can also contain executable bytecode: it's executed in a sandbox, but that sandbox is unlikely to be perfect. In tremulous, an old fork of ioquake3 which hadn't had the benefit of some more recent ioquake3 work on hardening the sandbox environment, I turned off auto-downloading entirely. When I suggested[1] doing the same to ioquake3, which would affect openarena in main and quake3 in contrib), unanimous feedback from users and the Games Team was that they would prefer an are you sure? prompt when auto-downloading was enabled. This moves the change from ioquake3 to openarena, since it's openarena that provides the user interface. Is the rest of the user interface generally translated? I might be willing to accept this patch, but not if it means regressing l10n. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#687617: [pre-approval] unblock: openarena with really auto-download? prompt
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock The ioquake3 engine has an option to auto-download missing maps, mods etc. (PK3 files) from multiplayer servers. It is off by default, but many users and mod communities encourage switching it on, since it makes playing on modified or updated multiplayer servers considerably more straightforward. Switching it on is a security risk, because PK3 files can also contain executable bytecode: it's executed in a sandbox, but that sandbox is unlikely to be perfect. In tremulous, an old fork of ioquake3 which hadn't had the benefit of some more recent ioquake3 work on hardening the sandbox environment, I turned off auto-downloading entirely. When I suggested[1] doing the same to ioquake3, which would affect openarena in main and quake3 in contrib), unanimous feedback from users and the Games Team was that they would prefer an are you sure? prompt when auto-downloading was enabled. This moves the change from ioquake3 to openarena, since it's openarena that provides the user interface. Would the Release Team be OK with unblocking an openarena package that added such a prompt? The change would look something like [2], which I just uploaded to experimental. I'm hoping others in the Games Team can improve the wording/display before this reaches unstable or testing. Quake III Arena doesn't have UI for the auto-downloading option. I'm going to assume that anyone who enables it using console commands knows what they're doing... Regards, S [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686648 [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-games/openarena.git;a=commitdiff;h=eed3e6469368c38276d2d79abae89f81d881fb71 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120914100159.ga2...@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk
