Bug#977520: buster-pu: package steam/1.0.0.59-4+deb10u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Mon, 2021-01-18 at 00:34 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 18:14:15 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 23:36 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > If the release team would accept it, a backport of the .deb from
> > > testing/unstable would be a reasonable alternative to this.
> > 
> > Does that include many changes that aren't in your proposed list?
> 
> Source package: yes, lots; the source package was reorganised
> upstream, with many files added or moved around, many of which don't
> actually contribute to the .deb that we provide.
> 
> Resulting binary package: not many:
> 
> - the proprietary binary /usr/lib/games/steam/steam is newer
>   (used to download even newer proprietary binaries into the
>   user's home directory to bootstrap the actual Steam installation)
> - minor changes to the /usr/games/steam script
>     - export environment variables that are picked up by Steam's
>       diagnostic tool, to signal the version of the script in use
>     - pre-create ~/.steam/steam and ~/.steam/root symlinks
> - Suggests nvidia-driver-libs (implicitly :i386) instead of
>   transitional nvidia-driver-libs-i386, which went away in bullseye
> - remove some redundancy from the udev rules
>     - don't set /dev/uinput to mode 0660, it has that mode by default
>     - don't set TAG+="uaccess" twice per device
> - improved Homepage, etc. URLs, with more https
> - remove an obsolete Lintian override
> - some comments

Thanks for this, and the debdiffs. Based on the descriptions, I'd be
happy to defer to your judgement as to which of the two options you'd
be happiest to support for the future. Please feel free to upload one
of them.

Regards,

Adam