Bug#688259: zangband: modifies shipped files during postinst

2012-11-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, Currently zangband is considered an RC-buggy leaf package[0] and will eventually be removed from testing unless this RC bug is dealt with (fixed, downgraded etc.). Mind you, the deadline listed in [0] is in the past. If I hadn't by chance noticed Drew's mail claiming he would upload a

Bug#688259: zangband: modifies shipped files during postinst

2012-11-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 19:54 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Drew, if you still intend to upload a fix for this bug, please do it sooner rather than later. Otherwise, consider asking someone to NMU/fix this package for you. Uploaded. Thanks for your patience. Markus, I left some hardening

Bug#688259: zangband: modifies shipped files during postinst

2012-10-23 Thread Markus Koschany
tags 688259 patch thanks Hi Drew and Andreas, i had a look at the issue and prepared a patch for it. As far as i can see changing the path for $static_vardir to /usr/share/games/zangband/lib is sufficient to avoid the deletion of raw files in /var/games/zangband/data. Running piuparts

Bug#688259: zangband: modifies shipped files during postinst

2012-10-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 17:13 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: i had a look at the issue and prepared a patch for it. Thanks Markus, I'll try to check it and upload this week. Drew, if you are still interested in having a co-maintainer, i can prepare a new version for zangband and fix some

Bug#688259: zangband: modifies shipped files during postinst, overwrites score file on upgrade

2012-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: zangband Version: 1:2.7.5pre1-4 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies some of teh files it ships. debsums reports modification of the following files, from the attached log (scroll to the

Bug#688259: zangband: modifies shipped files during postinst, overwrites score file on upgrade

2012-09-20 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 21:09 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies some of teh files it ships. ... There is no need to ship these files if they get reinitialized in the postinst script anyway. Looking at the postinst and the file list in