Assigning to the registered maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => rverschelde

Should be fixed in Cauldron with boswars-2.7-12.20170903.1.mga7. The PNG files had incorrect properties and libpng broke compatibility with them - updating to the current SVN snapshot fixed it.

I think Mageia 6 might be affected too, can someone confirm?

Confirmed, same error happens in Mga6.

CC: (none) => jan-bugs

Thanks, pushing same update to Mageia 6 core/updates_testing:

Advisory:
=========

Updated boswars packages fix compatibility with recent libpng

  Recent libpng versions are no longer compatible with some of the PNG files
  used in boswars, preventing the game to run properly.

  This update brings boswars' latest upstream snapshot, fixing the compatibility
  with libpng, among other bug fixes and content additions.


RPMs in core/updates_testing:
=============================

boswars-2.7-10.20170903.1.mga6
boswars-data-2.7-10.20170903.1.mga6.noarch


SRPM in core/updates_testing:
=============================

boswars-2.7-10.20170903.1.mga6


Note for QA:
============

To launch the game, use either the desktop file, or `boswars -d /usr/share/games/boswars`.

This warning is expected and harmless:
  Can't open file 'preferences.lua': No such file or directory
It will disappear once you configure something in the menu and the file is created.

Same with the spam of those warnings, harmless too:
  libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

Assignee: rverschelde => qa-bugs
Version: Cauldron => 6

MGA6-32 MATE on IBM Thinkpad R50e
No installation issues.
$ boswars -d /usr/share/games/boswars
Can't open file 'preferences.lua': No such file or directory
Bos Wars V2.7.0, (c) 1998-2013 by the Bos Wars and Stratagus Project.
  written by Lutz Sammer, Fabrice Rossi, Vladi Shabanski, Patrice Fortier,
Jon Gabrielson, Andreas Arens, Nehal Mistry, Jimmy Salmon, Francois Beerten and others.
	(http://www.boswars.org)
Compile options VORBIS THEORA 

Bos Wars may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License
which must be distributed with this program.

DISCLAIMER:
This software is provided as-is.  The author(s) can not be held liable for any
damage that might arise from the use of this software.
Use it at your own risk.

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Last line repeats umpteen times.
Program start,I cqn set options, start game and I get noises when I click on any item on the screen. That's as far as I go in gaming.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA6-32-OK
CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Testing M6 x64

BEFORE update, installed:
 boswars-2.7-9.mga6
 boswars-data-2.7-9.mga6
Launching it from the menu, it displayed its startup splash, but any attempted interaction crashed it. From console, same scenario:

$ boswars -d /usr/share/games/boswars
Can't open file 'preferences.lua': No such file or directory
...
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng error: IDAT: invalid distance too far back
Error reading the PNG file.
Can't load the graphic `graphics/ui/ui_minimap.png'
$
----------------------------------------------------
AFTER update:
 boswars-2.7-10.20170903.1.mga6
 boswars-data-2.7-10.20170903.1.mga6
Launching from menu worked fine, tried various short paths but not the game.
From console (changed language to French once started):

$ boswars -d /usr/share/games/boswars
Bos Wars V2.7.0, (c) 1998-2013 by the Bos Wars and Stratagus Project.
  written by Lutz Sammer, Fabrice Rossi, Vladi Shabanski, Patrice Fortier,
Jon Gabrielson, Andreas Arens, Nehal Mistry, Jimmy Salmon, Francois Beerten and others.
...
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Merci d'avoir joué à Bos Wars.
$

Update good. OKing, validating, doing advisory from comment 4.

Whiteboard: MGA6-32-OK => MGA6-32-OK MGA6-64-OK
Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_update
CC: (none) => lewyssmith, sysadmin-bugs

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2018-0176.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED