Your message dated Wed, 06 May 2026 19:11:03 +0000
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and subject line Bug#859318: fixed in pyracerz 0.2+dfsg-5
has caused the Debian Bug report #859318,
regarding pyracerz: Games crashes with Permission denied when writing
highscores
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Package: pyracerz
Version: 0.2-8
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
the game crashes when it tries to write the highscore file:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/games/pyracerz", line 280, in <module>
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
File "/usr/games/pyracerz", line 251, in main
challenge.Challenge(thePlayer)
File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/challenge.py", line 65, in __init__
chrono = chalRace.play()
File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/game.py", line 550, in play
self.computeScores(currentTrack)
File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/game.py", line 613, in computeScores
if misc.addHiScore(track, play) == 1:
File "/usr/share/games/pyracerz/modules/misc.py", line 185, in addHiScore
fwrite = file("/var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf", "w+")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf'
$ ls -al /var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 1208 apr 2 08:48 /var/games/pyracerz/pyracerz.conf
Best Regards,
Andrej Mernik
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sl_SI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sl_SI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages pyracerz depends on:
ii libsdl-ttf2.0-0 2.0.11-3+b1
ii python-pygame 1.9.1release+dfsg-10+b2
pn python:any <none>
pyracerz recommends no packages.
pyracerz suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: pyracerz
Source-Version: 0.2+dfsg-5
Done: Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pyracerz, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> (supplier of updated pyracerz package)
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Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 20:34:34 +0200
Source: pyracerz
Architecture: source
Version: 0.2+dfsg-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]>
Closes: 859318
Changes:
pyracerz (0.2+dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
* Revert the /var/games patching (Closes: #859318)
* Patch again to handle automatic migration to ~/.pyRacerz.conf
.
* Add debian/salsa-ci.yml
* Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no": it is the default now
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4, drop Priority: tag
* Rewrite d/watch in v5 format
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