Bug#489700: freesweep: assumes the exsistence of the /var/games/ directory

[Mari Wang]

Package: freesweep
Version: 0.90-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Freesweep assumes the excistence of /var/games on installation.  If
the directory does not exist, the following error occurs:

$ aptitude install freesweep
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  freesweep 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/38.8kB of archives. After unpacking 160kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package freesweep.
(Reading database ... 159744 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking freesweep (from .../freesweep_0.90-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up freesweep (0.90-1) ...
touch: cannot touch `/var/games/sweeptimes': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing freesweep (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 freesweep
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up freesweep (0.90-1) ...
touch: cannot touch `/var/games/sweeptimes': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing freesweep (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 freesweep
Reading package lists... Done             
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done         

If the directory exists prior to package installation, all is well.
The following trivial patch should fix the problem:

diff -ur freesweep-0.90.orig/debian/freesweep.dirs freesweep-0.90/debian/freesweep.dirs
--- freesweep-0.90.orig/debian/freesweep.dirs   2008-07-07 10:29:54.000000000 +0200
+++ freesweep-0.90/debian/freesweep.dirs        2008-07-07 10:30:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 usr/games
 etc
+var/games


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages freesweep depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

freesweep recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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Mari Wang