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. -- see shy jo
