Nexuiz demands a user to update to a new version

[hangy]

Binary package hint: nexuiz

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

nexuiz:
  Installed: 2.4-1
  Candidate: 2.4-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4-1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When you start Nexuiz (freshly installed via Ubuntu repositories in this case), it seems to check for an update and continues to nag the user with a yellow rectangle which says something like "Upgrade to Nexuiz 2.4.2 now!". While this probably is a good thing for online gaming compatibility etc., it should probably be disabled like in Firefox or Warsow.

[Hew (hew)]

With the upstream release of nexuiz 2.5, this issue may soon become relevant to all Ubuntu releases.

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

This actually is an issue in the nexuiz-data package, not nexuiz. Furthermore, I just yesterday uploaded a version to Debian unstable (2.4.2-2) which includes a patch to disable the version check. It is pretty small (just some #if 0 and #endif in one file), so you might want to use that patch for all releases of nexuiz-data in Ubuntu.

Please also notice that you might want to also adopt the small change I did to debian/rules about moving the patch-stamp dependency from the build target to the build-stamp target to ensure that patching is done *before* building.

Find attached the patch that I pushed into Debian stable which is a minimized version of the patch that I pushed into unstable where I also did some other small changes, but I guess you get the idea and can figure out which way you want to go.

[Hew (hew)]

Thanks Gerfried. If the new version isn't automatically synced from Debian in the next few days, I will file a sync request to get all the changes in for Ubuntu Karmic.

[Hew (hew)]

rmadison is lying to me, as 2.4.2-2 has already been synced to Ubuntu.