Bug#406307: /usr/games/xboing is not sgid games; cannot write scorefile

[Dwayne C. Litzenberger]

Package: xboing
Version: 2.4-29
Severity: normal

$ ls -l /usr/games/xboing /var/games/xboing.score 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  663108 2006-05-30 14:16 /usr/games/xboing
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root games    684 2003-04-13 11:11 /var/games/xboing.score

The result is that xboing cannot write new highscores to the score file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8)

Versions of packages xboing depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.3-4   X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                     1:1.0.1-2   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxpm4                      1:3.5.5-2   X11 pixmap library

xboing recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz at dlitz.net>