Your message dated Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:04:22 +0100 with message-id <87o7hxkyg9.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> and subject line Re: Bug#567033: Decide if we should continue recommending /usr/games has caused the Debian Bug report #567033, regarding Decide if we should continue recommending /usr/games to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 567033: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567033 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: dh: Install binaries to /usr/games if Section=games
- From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:56:26 +0100
- Message-id: <20100126195626.23502.71854.reportbug@localhost.localdomain>
Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.11 Severity: wishlist AFAICS dh is designed to automate as much as possible. It would be nice if binaries were automatically installed to /usr/games if the Section in debian/control is "games". Cheers, Moritz -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.5 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.1-8 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.50 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information
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- To: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, 567033-close@bugs.debian.org, Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#567033: Decide if we should continue recommending /usr/games
- From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:04:22 +0100
- Message-id: <87o7hxkyg9.fsf@melete.silentflame.com>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87sf7kworl.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> (Russ Allbery's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:25:34 -0700")
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control: tag -1 + wontfix Hello, On Mon 11 Sep 2023 at 11:25am -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thanks, Simon and Bill. I had forgotten about that point even though > it has come up before (just not in this bug). I agree that's a more > compelling argument for keeping /usr/games. I'm going to go ahead and close this discussion as I don't think that we have consensus for making this change. Let's keep /usr/games for now. -- Sean WhittonAttachment: signature.asc
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