Please remove wesnoth-1.8 from precise

[Jeremy Bícha]

wesnoth-1.8 is the old stable version of Wesnoth. It's obsolete because wesnoth-1.10 is the latest stable version and has been synced to precise from Debian.

Having both versions in Ubuntu is confusing. http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/s0zl5/any_reason_for_two_versions_of_wesnoth_in_precise/

Please also blacklist wesnoth-1.8 since it's not been removed from Debian yet.

http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/04/15/%23ubuntu-motu.html#t15:23

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Well, you have the answer in the posting you're referencing:
"1.10 was just released not too long ago. Many people still play 1.8 (there is a multiplayer setting), so offering both versions seems reasonable."

Some time ago, Rhonda was explaining me that it make sense to have both in #ubuntu-motu, but I'm not able to find it.
Anyway, she is subscribed to the bug report, so it's better to wait for her feedback.

Fabrice

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Mark as incomplete?

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

 One reason is that people can finish their campaigns that they started in 1.8 before they do the upgrade to 1.10 - but still can upgrade their ubuntu system without troubles. Also, the 1.8 stable tree is still supported upstream, some people are still playing it, and it is not possible to play multiplayer games with different stable versions, so having only 1.10 in precise would force others to upgrade too, to continue to be able to play with you.

 Personally, I am fine with either: precise will be a LTS release, and 1.8 will probably be phased out upstream before precise reaches end of life. I'm fine with whatever gets decided here. I am uncertain myself, otherwise I would have done the decision already. :)

So long,
Rhonda

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I'm going to make the call here and say that we can keep both in precise. We certainly cannot guarantee that all software in the archive will be supported for the lifetime of the release. With Wesnoth, as Gerfried said, there are people who would like to continue to play 1.8 for the time being. As both are already packaged and in the archive, I see no reason to remove the older one at this time. In fact, that might keep people from upgrading to precise and taking advantage of all the other new stuff in the release. That is unless there are possible security issues with keeping the old version. I see 6 CVEs for wesnoth, 3 from 2007 and 3 from 2009. So, unless wesnoth-1.8 will be removed from wheezy, I think this is fine to keep for precise. Unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors for the moment.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

wesnoth-1.8 was removed from wheezy, so I removed it from precise since the given reason seemed reasonable for us too without noticing this bug. If you think it should be in precise after all, please reupload it quickly with a newer version number and accept my apologies, and I'll process it back through NEW.

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