Package: pong2
Version: 0.1.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification:
hangs system so bad that X needs to be killed,
this is not revoverable by an ordinary user without a reboot,
can cause dataloss,
for example if user was editing something that wasn't saved yet,
(yes, i was doing that).
When pong2 is started on my 200 MHz Pentium
with ATI Mach64 videocard (running at 16 bits per pixel),
by clicking entry 'pong2' on menu,
cursor immediately disappears
(probably grabbed by pong,
programs should never do that if they don't have focus),
pong window shows first screen and reports a frame rate of 0.2 fps.
Without mouse, a normal user can not get out of this,
i went to a VT and did 'killall pong2',
which did not work, apparently pong2 ignores SIGTERM
which is WRONG,
I managed to kill it with 'pidof pong2' and 'kill -9',
but even then, when i returned to X, i had no mouse,
(fortunately focus had returned to xemacs, and i could do ^x-s),
I still had to kill X.
It's manpage and package description say
'fast game, crazy graphics, great fun'.
"Fast game", "graphics", and "great fun" are not correct.
If it can't run on some systems (as is at least the case),
it should mention this in it's packagedescription.
It should never ignore sigterm.
Most importantly,
It should never grab the mouse if it doesn't have focus.
(and it shouldn't grab focus either ofcourse).
I don't remember whether it grabbed focus,
i do remember that it even failed to display it's name as windowtitle.
Siward
(home.wanadoo.nl/siward)
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