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Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11



"Zak B. Elep" <zakame@spunge.org> wrote:

> Hi again! :d
>
> On 2/21/06, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> Really?  Your response here:
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/02/msg00275.html
>> seems to indicate that you fixed the package not to crash by
>> distributing the file.  Of course the file should be distributed.  But
>> even if it isn't, the program should be written to not crash,
>> hopefully in a graceful way (eg using errorx() rather than assert()).
>
> Heh, I didn't get my point clearly across.  Sorry for the malaprop. ;)
>
> What I meant was that, during the building of the updated xshisen, I
> found that xshisen won't start because it can't find its pixmaps,
> since it looks for these in /usr/share/xshisen , when in fact I
> installed those in /usr/share/games/xshisen .  Naturally I had to fix
> the debian/rules to correct this.  No files were removed or not
> distributed in the resulting deb.

It's still unclear to me whether "won't start" means "Tells the user it
won't start without these files" or rather "Crashes".

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)



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