Bug#545253: gtkballs: High scores disappear upgrading from etch to lenny

[Pavel Vávra]

Package: gtkballs
Version: 3.1.5-8
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5-pom64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gtkballs depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.22.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.7-18           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.6.4-7          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.16.6-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.20.5-5         Layout and rendering of internatio

gtkballs recommends no packages.

gtkballs suggests no packages.

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Hallo,
  after upgrading from etch to lenny I've found that High Scores are not shown in GtkBalls.
  Searching on my disk I've found that Hiscore is saved in file /var/games/gtkballs-scores, but I've seen that this file has owner/group set to root/root and permissions set to rw-r--r--. It causes users are not allowed to write to this file. In addition it seems that this file has been rewriten during upgrade, because I found that this file is empty.
  My proposed solution:
    If installation process will find this file, leave it untouched (or change permissions to proper value rw-rw-r-- and owner root/games). If file doesn't exist, create empty one (if it is neccessary, but I think it is, because /var/games directory is owned by root/root) with owner root/games (not root/root) and permissions rw-rw-r-- (not rw-r--r--).

Thank you for final solution of this problem,
  Pavel