random.org - only 1,2,3 dice rolled

TonyP <email address hidden> writes:

> Binary package hint: gnubg

> Version of Ubuntu = Ubuntu 9.10 (AMD 64)
> Version of gnubg = 0.90-3
> Version of gnubg-data = 0.90-3

> When using the 'Random.org' internet site as the random number generator
> (selectable within GNUBG > Settings > Options > Dice) it only gives the
> dice rolls of 1 or 2 or 3 (ie. neither you nor the gnubg ever roll a 4
> or 5 or 6 during a game).

> All other random number generators available in gnubg are fine.

> Have tried removing and re-installing both gnubg and gnubg-data several
> times.

> I have also run a query at Random.org, putting the random dice rolls
> that it produced into a text file and then using this as input to gnubg.
> This gave all numbers in dice rolls (ie. you get dice rolls of 1,2,3,4,5
> or 6 in a random order, as you'd expect), so Random.org seems to be
> working okay.

I suspect this may be fixed in the new version of gnubg in Debian. The
random.org HTTP interface changed and I remember that gnubg had to change
to fix an incompatibility. I may have missed that change in the most
recent snapshot I uploaded, though.

--
Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

This bug was fixed in the package gnubg - 0.90+20120127-3

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gnubg (0.90+20120127-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on libpng-dev instead of libpng12-dev. (Closes: #662355)

 -- Russ Allbery <email address hidden> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:11:41 -0800