Hi, I'm replying to this 2003 email: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/01/msg00000.html I'm not subscribed on -mentors, CC if needed.
This old problem "1)" has now been fixed in a uniform way by delegating the /var/games logic to dh-cruft helper https://sources.debian.org/src/cruft-ng/0.9.84/dh-cruft/dh_cruft#L104 I think that point 2) is non-existent, well I hope. What is sure is that this old setgid practice does not map well with current graphical toolkits and has been deprecated by Games Team [3] and we will likely add very little setgid games to the archive in the future I'm fixing xpuzzles because it's upstream is still very active; I've reverted broken setgid support attempts for one Java and one Python game. Santiago: nothing to be done for base-files; but I went through high moments of doubts seeing how /var/games was consistently managed between different games that _tought_ it was part of base-files. Greetings [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2025/12/msg00016.html > What is the right way to uninstall /var/games in postrm on purge? > Problems: > 1) The package should remove /var/games on purge if necessary because, > unlike /var/log, /var/games is not a part of base-files . > 2) There may be a game such that: > * it saves its high score in a file in /var/games, not in > a subdirectory under /var/games > * it does not create a file in /var/games until the first entry > of the high score is saved > If such a game is installed, any other game should not remove > /var/games even if /var/games is empty.
