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Bug#1098948: marked as done (Changing 10.1 requirements for /usr/games)

Your message dated Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:19:49 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1098948: fixed in debian-policy 4.7.2.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #1098948,
regarding Changing 10.1 requirements for /usr/games
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.7.1.0
Severity: important
X-debbugs-cc: helmut@subdivi.de, vincent@vinc17.net, biebl@debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org

Hello,

Thank you all for your replies.

I believe that there is a procedural issue which trumps the substantive
issue about merging or not merging: releasing Policy is not meant to
render a bunch of packages buggy (of any bug severity) except where the
change to Policy is a deliberate step in some larger process.

If this was one or two cases, we could ignore it.  But it's not, it's
loads of packages.  Procedurally, this is just too far from our norm.

So we have to lower the severity of the wording for /etc/games.

Therefore I am seeking seconds for the following patch.
I would encourage those of you most interested in the merge to do an MBF
requesting the merge be performed for all the affected packages, and
then we can undo this again.

("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
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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 4.7.2.0
Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1098948@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:35:02 +0800
Source: debian-policy
Architecture: source
Version: 4.7.2.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Closes: 1098948
Changes:
 debian-policy (4.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Policy: Relax 10.1 slightly for /usr/games
     Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
     Seconded: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
     Seconded: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
     Closes: #1098948
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