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



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