Update Package: BZFlag

[Emilio]

BZFlag packages are in the official repos, but they're outdated. Repos hold 2.0.13, but latest is 2.0.16

Official Site: http://bzflag.org/
BZFlag Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/files/

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

Package for getdeb published:
http://www.playdeb.net/software/bzflag

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

I've just marked two other bugs dups of this, and linked it to debian bug 636685

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens (jbn)]

Latest is 2.4.0 since 2011-08-06. Could we get another update package?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package bzflag - 2.4.2+ds1-1

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bzflag (2.4.2+ds1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Ryan Kavanagh ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #636685, #649144, LP: #555388)
    + bzflag.desktop is no longer uses the "3DGraphics" category
      (Closes: #588149, LP: #532056)
    + Tarball was repacked to drop many bundled libraries, see copyright file
      and README.source for details.
    + Update autotools files with 01_repack_no_other.diff to no longer deal
      with the dropped bundled libraries.
    + Add a README.source to describe procedure to repack tarball with
      Git/git-buildpackage
  * Set maintainer to Debian Games Team
    + Put packaging in team Git
    + Set Vcs-* tags
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3
  * Updated copyright file
  * Don't install unneeded README files
  * Don't install the BUGS file, its information is already provided by README
  * Added compat file instead of setting DH_COMPAT=4 in debian/rules
    + Move from an old-style dh_* rules to a dh style rules
    + Bump compat to version from 4 to 9 and bump debhelper build-dependency
      to >= 9
  * Install bzflag-server maps as examples rather than in the root
    documentation directory.
  * Set Debian source format to 3.0 (quilt)
  * Expand and update long descriptions
  * Don't install DejaVu.License in bzflag-data, was getting installed by the
    wildcard used to install font data
  * Override lintian's claimed spelling mistake ment/meant
  * Build-depend on dh-autoreconf and run it from debian/rules
  * Don't create var/run/bzflag with dh_installdirs, instead, create it from
    initscript.
  * The menu file should be in the bzflag-client package, not bzflag-data.
    Moreover, we should also actually install it. (Closes: #499592)
  * Override menu-icon-missing in bzflag-client, it's provided by bzflag-data
  * Update README.Debian to reference the init file and RUN_AT_STARTUP.
  * bzflag-client should suggest bzflag-server, which in turn enhances
    bzflag-client

  [ Karl Goetz ]
  * Move back to a non-native package (Closes: #470743)
  * Enable compression of docs (Closes: #608329)
  * Add ${misc:Depends} for Lintian.
  * bzflag no longer Suggests *and* Depend on bzflag-server
  * Fix typo in bzflag-data's long description.
  * Switch menu section to Games/Action. Thanks blast007 for suggesting the
    section.
  * Remove debian/Makefile.am and debian/Buildstap, we don't them it in Debian
  * Add a watch file
  * Add an init script for the server (disabled by default). (Closes: #489276)
    + Add a defaults file for server options
  * Allow for compressing documentation (Closes: #608329)

  [ Scott Wichser ]
  * Update the rules and control files a bit.
    + Switch B-D to groff from groff-base
    + Use libcurl4-gnutls-dev instead of libcurl3-openssl-dev
    + Add build-dependency on libc-ares-dev
    + Allow libglew1.5-dev
  * Add a Homepage and fix a few Replaces.

 -- Ryan Kavanagh <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:47:24 -0400