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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.6.7nb3, Package name: nethack-lib-3.6.7nb3, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Nethack is a single player, ASCII graphics-based adventure game, similar
to the lines of Dungeons & Dragons and similar fantasy games. It is
commonly classified in the larger group of Rogue-like Games, which
generally are all text-based, solo adventures.

Within the game, your character is after the infamous Wizard of Yendor,
who has stolen the Amulet of Yendor and plans to use it for his evil
purposes. You, a young member of your chosen class, have been blessed by
your people and your god to retrieve the Amulet, and to save the world
from the Wizard's evil plans.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

Filesize: 5446.694 KB

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   2023-09-03 14:12:04 by Olaf Seibert | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
games/nethack-lib: really force the use of ncurses.

Use PREFER.curses=pkgsrc despite objections of pkglint. It's the only thing
that works. buildlink3/bsd.builtin.mk allows it.
   2023-09-02 15:45:14 by Olaf Seibert | Files touched by this commit (15)
Log message:
games/nethack*: enable curses user interface

The "nethack" wrapper script that papers over the existence of nethack-tty
and nethack-x11 has been made more like the original way to select UIs
(since there are now 3, and each game binary supports more than one of them).
   2023-08-27 17:59:19 by Olaf Seibert | Files touched by this commit (6)
Log message:
games/nethack-lib: enhance patches to make wip/nethack-curses possible.
   2023-08-26 17:02:25 by Olaf Seibert | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
games/nethack-lib: updated NetHack to version 3.6.7.

NetHack 3.6.7 is the official release of NetHack that follows NetHack 3.6.6.

This release primarily corrects a security issue present in NetHack versions
3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.5, and 3.6.6. For details about the security issues
please see https://www.nethack.org/security. You are encouraged to update to
NetHack 3.6.7 as soon as possible.

Here's a brief synopsis of the handful of bug fixes included in NetHack 3.6.7:

    invalid status highlight color could be maliciously used to corrupt memory
    formatting corpse names used internal buffers differently from formatting
other objects and could potentially clobber memory
    during engraving, spaces were counted instead of non-space (cherry-pick of
4e0a1e04 from NetHack-3.7)
    avoid potential buffer overflow in append_str()
    resolve missing dependency in NetHack.sln
    code in include/tradstdc.h was trying to suppress warn_unused result by
defining warn_unused_result to an empty string and that began causing a build
error within a system-supplied header file cdefs.h when using Ubuntu Impish
21.10; disable that for any Linux and macOS gcc unless GCC_URWARN is defined to
force it back into effect
    update_inventory() after leash goes slack
    player assigned name for monsters, specific objects, or object types could
be longer than what was intented to be allowed; for 'curses', much longer
    curses: cherry-picked selectsaved code from 3.7 for menu of save files
    NetHackW: fix delayed rendering of cursor when using farlook
   2022-04-25 00:21:33 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
nethack-lib: add CHECK_PORTABILITY_SKIP
   2021-10-26 12:44:37 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (466)
Log message:
games: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:08:04 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (466)
Log message:
games: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-04-24 14:59:00 by Olaf Seibert | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
The NetHack DevTeam is announcing the release of NetHack 3.6.6 on
March 8, 2020

NetHack 3.6.6 is the official release of NetHack that follows NetHack 3.6.5.

This release primarily corrects a security issue present in NetHack
versions 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4 and 3.6.5.
For details about the security issues please see https://www.nethack.org/security.
You are encouraged to update to NetHack 3.6.6 as soon as possible.

Here's a brief synopsis of the handful of bug fixes included in NetHack 3.6.6:

 *  invalid status highlight color could be maliciously used to corrupt memory
 *  formatting corpse names used internal buffers differently from formatting
 *      other objects and could potentially clobber memory
 *  avoid divide by 0 crash if 'bogusmon' (file of bogus monster types) is empty
 *  avoid #wizrumorcheck crash if either 'rumors.tru' or 'rumors.fal' or both
 *      were empty when makedefs built 'rumors'
 *  avoid "<mon>'s glorkum pass harmlessly through the shade" \ 
for weaponless mon

All of the fixes have been published on the public Git repository for the game.
A more complete list can be found in the game's sources in doc/fixes36.6. As usual,
a warning that some entries in that file may also be "spoilers".

Existing saved games and bones files from 3.6.0 through to 3.6.5 should work with
3.6.6, assuming that the same build configuration options were used.

The following command can be used on most platforms to help confirm the location of
various files that NetHack may use:
    nethack --showpaths