[Bug 355086] Re: Wesnoth save game file format in jaunty is incompatible (1.4 -> 1.6) and saves just vanish

[Gergely Máté]

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 ;-) !

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Wesnoth save game file format in jaunty is incompatible (1.4 -> 1.6) and saves just vanish
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