108996 – games-board/hearts broken server

Bug 108996 - games-board/hearts broken server

Summary: games-board/hearts broken server

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Games

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Reported:	2005-10-12 06:18 UTC by Luke Worth
Modified:	2007-03-14 16:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Patch to remove the line trying to connect to the server. (die_builtin_server.patch,448 bytes, patch) 2005-10-12 06:19 UTC, Luke Worth	Details \| Diff
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Description Luke Worth 2005-10-12 06:18:26 UTC

hearts tries to connect to a game server on hearts.luispedro.org when it starts.
It shouldn't, because that server isn't (always) alive.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Luke Worth 2005-10-12 06:19:35 UTC

Created attachment 70449 [details, diff]
Patch to remove the line trying to connect to the server.

Comment 2 Michael Vogt 2006-07-13 23:46:18 UTC

Well, I think this is part of the program and we shouldn't just change the games behaviour. I don't like the automatic connecting either but with proper connection error handling, this shouldn't be too much of a deal.

Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-14 16:54:14 UTC

yep.  needs to be taken up with the upstream developer.