Re: crafty: suggesting bugfixes
Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> I've done some work with crafty, my main motivation being getting a more
> recent version packaged and installed. I also tried to squash some
> existing bugs while I was at it, with more or less successful results. I
> moved learning files (book openings etc.) to /var/games/crafty following
> example fro phalanx. However lintian keeps complaining as follows:
>
> W: crafty: file-in-unusual-dir var/games/crafty/books.bin
> W: crafty: non-standard-file-perm var/games/crafty/books.bin 0664 != 0644
The second message looks like a lintian bug. Shaleh?
The first message is because we don't generally install files in /var at
all. I've talked to the previous maintainer of crafty about this and he
had some reason to put them in /var, but it's IMHO broken.
> If I move the files in /var/lib/games/crafty, lintian gives errors and
> tells me not to mark those files as conffiles. But the files shouldn't be
> removed unless the package is purged. How should this be handled?
>
> I am no Debian maintainer nor am I even applying to become as one. I'm
> just an above (yeah, right) average user with a bit too much time at hand.
> Anyway, the packages can be found from http://togo.dhs.org/debian/ . Hope
> this is useful for someone else besides me too.
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