Comment 3 for bug 355086

I have the same problem here; but I don't think that it is an upstream problem, in fact, I think it is an Ubuntu special problem. I had this kind of problem before, when updating Ubuntu from 8.04 to 8.10, and for now I see it to be not a Wesnoth specific problem. It affects the whole Ubuntu lifecycle, and probably many applications.

In those times I was upgrading to Intrepid, I was learning using the Gimp from it's help files. I was learning day by day, always working myself through more and more chapters from Gimp-help. During the update to Intrepid, Gimp version has changed, a rather nice upgrade: from 2.4 to 2.6. But the help package was not ready, and offline Gimp-help stopped to work at all. So after the distro update, I was not able to continue my learning experience the way I was doing it before. I filed a bug-report, thus.

These days I played Wesnoth. I enjoyed it and was involved in a campaign (like Gerfried). After the distro upgrade, the experience is lost: I cannot continue along the path I was going. Version incompatibility. I played some other games, such as SuperTuxKart, which works terribly after the distro upgrade - the problem is with Intel video performance, a well documented bug, although. I knew I would have problems after the upgrade. But I am a free software enthusiast, and I was very interested in the work my other enthusiastic fellows did worldwide. So I upgraded.

There may be always pains and losses as the world I live in change. Now I try to do my best to cure those problems that arose from the change - not only to myself, but to the whole Ubuntu community. In my "spare time", I probably will start another Wesnoth campaign, or simply try playing online - a thing I was not brave enough to do before.

Meanwhile, thinking about how to make distribution upgrades less a pain and more a joy seems an important task if Ubuntu seriously wanted to conquer desktop market majority ;-) !