Re: [bug #61729] generic no gnuchess on localhost error or arch family

[Simon Scatton]

Hello,

On 12/27/21 20:33, Alan Bennett wrote:
> I think there are two parts. (1) The Arch package is 4.9.1-3 while 
> xboard version is 4.9.1, so the user sees a "tail number" of 1 instead 
> of 3. (2) Gnuchess is in the default xboard engine list, but needed a 
> separate install via the package manager. If not installed by the user, 
> xboard reports an error. (Actually I get two errors, the second one 
> "broken pipe" is fatal to xboard.)
>
> Sorry if it wasn't my place to speak to this issue.
>
> --
> Alan

If you are correct then the issue with the arch packages is to see with
the maintainer of the arch package which is not any of us I believe ? I
can see that it's Sergej Pupykin on the AUR.

For the gnuchess issue this is also a problem of dependencies I believe.

Although this raises valid concern on error handling on missing
dependencies on our end, I'll add that to the todo list I have.

If there is anything more that we can do please let me know otherwise
I'll let Adi close the issue on Savannah.

Best regards,

--
Simon Scatton