Philippe Michel <[email protected]> writes: > I'm sorry if I seemed critical or harsh. Although I'm not familiar witth > Debian I should have searched further than I did (that is, the man > page).
Oh, no, not at all! I very much welcome the feedback on the Debian packaging and I always feel bad when packaging issues cause problems upstream. > Regarding the files locations, I agree with the principles you give. >> However, the deeper problem is that files that are generated by the >> user shouldn't be put into /usr/share *or* /var/lib. Both of those >> paths are intended to only be written to by privileged users. The best >> place to load additional user-supplied bearoff databases and >> hypergammon databases would be using XDG paths in the user's home >> directory, and gnubg should ideally use a search path that looks in the >> user's home directory first, and then in /var/lib and /usr/share if the >> file cannot be found there. Great, if I manage to find some time to work on this I'll send you a patch. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
