Subject: no write access to /var/games/lmarbles/lmarbles.prfs Package: lmarbles Version: 1.0.7-1 Severity: important Tags: patch
When running the game, you get that warning in the console: WARNING: no write access to /var/games/lmarbles/lmarbles.prfs It's a major pain because you have to start the game from scratch every time you start playing, which really is not very fun after a while. I notice the game has this postinst: chown root:games /var/games/lmarbles/ chown root:games /var/games/lmarbles/lmarbles.prfs chmod 775 /var/games/lmarbles chmod 664 /var/games/lmarbles/lmarbles.prfs But I'm not in the games group. I don't believe it was intended to have regular users in the system be member of games, since they can play anyways, they just can't save their preferences. So postinst should probably also do: chown :games /usr/games/lmarbles chmod g+s /usr/games/lmarbles I bet this is acceptable http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt (5-n) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lmarbles depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.8-6.3 mixer library for Simple DirectMed ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.14-6.1 Simple DirectMedia Layer lmarbles recommends no packages. lmarbles suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org