On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 08:33:46PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> ("may" and "encouraged" here have their official Policy meanings)
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst
> index 6fda3b1..c2e4700 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-files.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-files.rst
> @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ to the ``debian-devel`` mailing list and try to find a consensus about
> which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached,
> *both* programs must be renamed.
>
> +There is a exception to the above rules for ``/usr/games``: packages that
> +already install programs to ``/usr/games``, where another package installs a
> +program of the same with different functionality to a different directory on
> +the default ``PATH``, may continue to do so. However, packages must not
> +install any newly conflicting programs to ``/usr/games``, and packages already
> +doing so are encouraged to move these programs to non-conflicting names.
> +
> Packages must not install files to paths whose first component is a name
> directly under the file system root and which is a symbolic link to a
> directory of the same name under ``/usr``. That is, packages must not install
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
seconded, thanks.
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