Bug#567033: Decide if we should continue recommending /usr/games

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Sean Whitton wrote:
> The latest version of the FHS does not have /usr/games, so merging this
> with the bug about updating our FHS version.

Meh.

>From my point of view we should continue to keep /usr/games/ for games
as that helps to distinguish games from tools with the same name —
which occassionally is necessary.

Most prominent case: pacman — on the one hand the well-known game and
on the other hand ArchLinux's package manager which is not (yet)
packaged for Debian, but referred to in several tools packaged for
Debian.

Removing /usr/games/ from Debian would reopen the following two bugs
without trivial solutions, i.e. requiring to explicitly remove
upstream code instead of just removing /usr/games/ from $PATH.

* neofetch: Starts the game pacman upon invocation
  (https://bugs.debian.org/845629)

* needrestart: bug-script runs /usr/games/pacman when trying to use
  ArchLinux's pacman package manager /etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman
  (https://bugs.debian.org/752114)

		Regards, Axel
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