dh: Install binaries to /usr/games if Section=games

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Mon Aug 31 21:10:55 UTC 2015


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 <jmm at 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




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