On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 09:34:26PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:56:26 +0100 Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Package: debhelper
> > Version: 7.4.11
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > AFAICS dh is designed to automate as much as possible. It would be
> > nice if binaries were automatically installed to /usr/games if
> > the Section in debian/control is "games".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Moritz
> >
> > [...]
>
> Hi,
>
> Are we still using /usr/games for games? AFAICT, the use of /usr/games
> is optional, so it is not clear to me that this desired? The last I can
> find on this in Debian is [1], which is 1½ years after this bug was filed.
I don't even remember filing that bug :-)
That said, the historical use case of /usr/games is mostly moot these days
and I agree that games should rather be installed into /usr/bin instead.
So two thumbs up on the proposed policy change suggestion.
Cheers,
Moritz
