On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:44:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > 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 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.
Depending on what /var/games/crafty/books.bin is meant to be, some options
would be to:
* if its just a static component of the package that no one ever
has reason to modify:
- mark it as a non conffile, change perms to 0644, leave it
as is
- move it to usr/lib or usr/share
* if it changes in the general course of the program (like a high
score or something), but isn't meant to be changed by hand
- put the initial version of the file in usr/lib, and copy
that into place in the postinst; since it's a .bin the
conffile handling probably isn't too useful anyway (diff
for example probably isn't too constructive). rm it by
hand in the postrm on purge.
* if it is meant to be changed by hand
- put it in /etc, mark it as a conffile; add a symlink from
/var if necessary
Depends what books.bin actually is though, of course.
Cheers,
aj
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