On 2011-09-25 00:35, Michael Gilbert wrote: > package: lintian > version: 2.5.3 > severity: normal > > According a recent games team meeting log and several freedesktop > documents, games no longer belong in /usr/games. However, when a > package is updated to put game executables in /usr/bin, the lintian > error package-section-games-but-contains-no-game is asserted. For > more info, see: > http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-games/2011/debian-games.2011-06-26-09.57.html > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2011-May/000369.html > > Thanks, > Mike > > >
Hi, Have you filed a bug against debian-policy? At least ยง11.11 says "As described in the FHS, binaries of games should be installed in the directory /usr/games". Can I assume this implies that setgid-binaries for games will appear in /usr/bin as well (currently we only allow stuff in /usr/lib/games and /usr/games/)? On a related note, I suspect this will affect/break the tags package-section-games-but-has-usr-bin and games-package-should-be-section-games. package-section-games-but-has-usr-bin could survive as a consistency check (either everything goes into /usr/games or everything goes into /usr/bin). However that only makes sense if /usr/games is not (going to be) deprecated. The meeting logs were not completely clear to me on this part. I suppose we could salvage games-package-should-be-section-games by looking for "setgid games" binaries or/and installing stuff in (i.e.) /usr/lib/games and other discriminating directories. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org