Bug#705077: 0ad: Configuration file *must* be under /etc

[Martin Quinson]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:32:01PM -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Martin Quinson <martin.quinson at loria.fr> wrote:
> > Package: 0ad
> > Version: 0.0.13-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Vincent,
> >
> > I wanted to change the default configuration, and had to dpkg -L the
> > packages to discover its configuration file.
> >
> > /usr/share/games/0ad/config/ is not the right location for
> > default.cfg, you really want to move it to /etc.
> >
> > Usually I would have reported this serious policy violation with a
> > release critical severity, but I don't want to interfere with the
> > release process right now.
> >
> > Please fix it anyway :)
> 
> The "config" files in /usr/share/games/0ad are all just templates; the
> actual config files the game uses are placed in
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/0ad/config/user.cfg (i.e. for mostly everyone it's
> found in ~/.config/0ad/config/user.cfg), and these config files in
> $XDG_CONFIG_HOME override those in /usr/share/games/0ad (as is the
> norm for many desktop applications).

If they are templates, they must go to /usr/share/doc. But that's not
true: when I edit this file, and relaunch the game, I see the
difference applied in the game. I did this:

--- /usr/share/games/0ad/config/default.cfg~
+++ /usr/share/games/0ad/config/default.cfg
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ; **************************************************************
  
 ; Enable/disable windowed mode by default. (Use Alt+Enter to toggle in the game.)
-windowed = false
+windowed = true
 
 ; Enable/disable the splashscreen
  splashscreenenable = true
---------------------------------------------   

and then the game starts in windowed mode. The fact that ~/.0ad config
files override /etc/ files seems quite usual to me, but do not change
my feeling about config files out of /etc.

I don't think that desktop application norms should override the FHS
in Debian. Our distribution is exactly about unifying very
heterogeneous communities into a consistant set.

> > Thanks for your work anyway, you are on each game in Debian, that's
> > incredible!
> 
> Thanks! It looks like we share a pretty similar taste when it comes to
> FOSS games. :)

Should we start doing our own game? ;)

Thanks, Mt.