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Retux game halts after preloading levels (missing ucd.sqlite uniseg database)

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From: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>
Cc: 30189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kei Kebreau <kei <at> openmailbox.org>
Subject: Re: bug#30189: Retux game halts after preloading levels (missing
 ucd.sqlite uniseg database)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:09:21 +0100

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I think unzip should be added to native-inputs. Can you try that?


2018-01-21 4:46 GMT+01:00 Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'd like to play the Retux game, but while the game starts up it crashes
> on me after the "preloading levels" screen.
>
> There's no useful console output, but when running in the debugger, I
> see that the python-uniseg package is looking for a file called
> ucd.sqlite3 that doesn't exist, some kind of Unicode letter spacing
> database that's not present in the BitBucket repository.
>
>   python3 -m pdb -c continue \
>   "/gnu/store/57psnlgdyri8phkxzasaf6q0gb8nskpz-retux-1.3.5/bin/.retux-
> real"
>
> See uniseg/db.py:107 and 21. Since it's also looking in the current
> directory, I tried downloading ucd.sqlite3 from the PyPI zip package -
> that fixes the issue.
>
> The python-uniseg package downloads the source from BitBucket, so I
> tried changing that to PyPI:
>
>   (uri (pypi-uri "uniseg" version ".zip"))
>
> which downloads ok, but fails but the fails at the unpack phase without
> any details. Should Guix know how to unpack a .zip? Or maybe I should
> coerce the maintainer to publish a .tar.gz?
>
> Currently Retux is the only program that uses python-uniseg (via
> python-sge-pygame dependency).
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>

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