Bug 1510108

According to /usr/share/doc/frotz/ChangeLog the current 2.43 version was "released on Monday October 28, 2002". Impressive!

Meanwhile, the 2.44 release (May 20, 2015) builds with the same .spec file as 2.43, the only update required is to refresh the Fedora patch files so they apply on the newer sources.

It also contains significant fixes applied over the intervening 12.5 years. Among many improvements, frotz-2.44 is better able to recognize valid games in more ancient z-machine format, files which the currently-disting frotz-2.43 refuses to load. (Those same files load without issue in gargoyle and other interpreters.)

Spec changes necessary to successfully build 2.44 were confined to metadata:

--- frotz.spec	2017-08-02 20:30:35.000000000 -0400
+++ frotz-2.44.spec	2018-03-29 08:31:15.620577238 -0400
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Name:           frotz
-Version:        2.43
-Release:        22%{?dist}
+Version:        2.44
+Release:        0.1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Interpreter for Infocom and other Z-machine games
 
 Group:          Amusements/Games
 License:        GPLv2+
-URL:            http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/
-Source0:        http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/files/frotz-2.43.tar.gz
-Patch1:         frotz-2.43-Makefile.patch
-Patch2:         frotz-2.43-conf.patch
+URL:            https://github.com/DavidGriffith/frotz/
+Source0:        https://github.com/DavidGriffith/frotz/archive/2.44.tar.gz#/frotz-2.44.tar.gz
+Patch1:         frotz-2.44-Makefile.patch
+Patch2:         frotz-2.44-conf.patch

Will attach referenced patch files to ticket.

Created attachment 1414751 [details]
Makefile patch, updated for frotz-2.44 dist sources

Created attachment 1414752 [details]
frotz.conf patch, updated for frotz-2.44 dist sources

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I guess it's time to consider frotz an abandoned Fedora package, huh? Maybe I'll look into taking ownership, I know I have that new-procedures email somewhere...

(I admit I'd forgotten about this, I built and installed a 2.44 RPM for my own use so the Fedora packaging has been ignored ever since.)

Also, just for the record / housekeeping purposes, the GitHub repo is now archived, and the official Frotz source code repo has moved to https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz

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