Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-arcade/xboing

2013-02-03 Thread James Cloos
 AKH == Andreas K Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org writes:

AKH Well, except for the fact that it 
AKH 1) did not start (immediate fortify crash because the string buffer was 
too 
AKH short to hold the font name for a debug output)
AKH 2) was unplayably fast (imagine what you get when you pass milliseconds to 
AKH usleep...)
AKH So in this case the mask was quite adequate.

Works here.  I tested before posting.

-JimC
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James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6



Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-arcade/xboing

2013-02-02 Thread James Cloos
 MS == Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org writes:

MS # Old, dead upstream, slightly broken and uses imake.

Nothing wrong with old.  The web page is still there.  It works
reasonably well and THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IMAKE.

MS # Masked for removal on 20130302
MS games-arcade/xboing

One should just let it be.

-JimC
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James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6



Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-arcade/xboing

2013-02-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013, 19:11:30 schrieb James Cloos:
  MS == Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org writes:
 MS # Old, dead upstream, slightly broken and uses imake.
 
 Nothing wrong with old.  The web page is still there.  It works
 reasonably well and THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IMAKE.
 
 MS # Masked for removal on 20130302
 MS games-arcade/xboing
 
 One should just let it be.
 
 -JimC

Well, except for the fact that it 
1) did not start (immediate fortify crash because the string buffer was too 
short to hold the font name for a debug output)
2) was unplayably fast (imagine what you get when you pass milliseconds to 
usleep...)
So in this case the mask was quite adequate.


  02 Feb 2013; Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org -xboing-2.4-
r1.ebuild,
  +xboing-2.4-r2.ebuild, +files/xboing-2.4-buffer.patch,
  +files/xboing-2.4-sleep.patch, metadata.xml:
  Adopt package, fix buffer overflow (kinda), bug 442290, and impossible game
  speed. Drop to ~arch as we're returning from package mask.

(This wakes some old memories...)


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/



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[gentoo-dev] last rites: games-arcade/xboing

2013-01-31 Thread Michael Sterrett
# Michael Sterrett mr_bon...@gentoo.org (31 Jan 2013)
# Old, dead upstream, slightly broken and uses imake.
# Masked for removal on 20130302
games-arcade/xboing