rocksndiamonds does not save highscores

[Aditya Vaidya]

Hello,

I think it would be worthwhile if you also reported the bugs on the Debian
bug tracker (if you haven't already) and link to them on Launchpad. This
will help making sure that the bugs are fixed in both distributions with
minimal effort.

Also, on the subject of high scores: GNOME games (e.g. Gnomine ("Mines"))
seems to create a user and/or group (not sure which) called "gnome-games"
and exclusively uses that user/group to set highscores in /var/games. Note
that there are no separate directories in /var/games for each separate
game's scores. We'll have to see the packages "gnome-games" and "gnomine"
for how to do this.

For the menu bug, we'll have to create a new .desktop file.

I'll probably start looking into these bugs soon, as well as fixing some of
them.

I hope it helped! :)

Sincerely,
kroq-gar78


On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:10 AM, melchiaros <melchiaros at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Hi there, we have a bugreport on launchpad that for sure will also affect
> Debian. I have contacted the the developer of rocksndiamonds. He is willing
> to work on the package(see the e-mails down this one).
>
> The launchpad bugreport can be found at:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rocksndiamonds/+bug/304516
>
> This report is still actual for Ubuntu12.10 and with this for Debian 7.0.
>
> best regards
>
> melchiaros
>
> P.S: There are some more reports that seems to me related to the package
> itself and distribution independed. You may want to look what of this 5
> reports is of interest for you:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rocksndiamonds
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------  Betreff: Re: rocksndiamonds does
> not save highscores  Datum: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:52:13 +0200  Von: Holger
> Schemel <holger.schemel at artsoft.org> <holger.schemel at artsoft.org>  An: melchiaros
> <melchiaros at aol.com> <melchiaros at aol.com>
>
> Hello melchiaros,
>
> I've read the launchpad bugtracker entries to this issue.
>
> As far as I understand, this looks like a building or packaging problem.
> The "Makefile" of the game's source package allows for an appropriate
> location to store system-wide highscore data files:
>
> --- snip ---
> [...]
>
> # directory for writable game data (like highscore files)
> # default is '.' to be able to run program without installation
> # RW_GAME_DIR = /var/games
> # use the following setting for Debian / Ubuntu installations:
> # RW_GAME_DIR = /var/games/rocksndiamonds
>
> [...]
> --- snip ---
>
> When looking at the bug report, the Ubuntu package of the game tries to
> write highscore data into the directory "/usr/games/scores/", where it
> apparently does not have write permissions. Although I don't know the
> Ubuntu packaging conventions, I would expect program runtime data to be
> written somewhere under "/var/", preferably into a dedicated directory,
> like "/var/games/rocksndiamonds". This could of course be changed in the
> "Makefile" to fit different distribution's needs or conventions.
>
> Maybe I should add a workaround to store such data somewhere under
> "~/.rocksndiamonds/" in case of the configured highscore directory not
> being writable by the game's process.
>
> Are you the Ubuntu package maintainer for Rocks'n'Diamonds? If so, do
> you need any further assistance to re-build the package, or some changes
> in the game program to fit specific Ubuntu packaging conventions?
>
> I hope I was able to help to work around the reported bug.
>
> Best regards,
> 		Holger
>
>
> On 20.08.2012 12:29, melchiaros wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On launchpad bugtracker(Ubuntu Linux) is a report filed by
> > Frans Slothouber.
> >
> > rocksndiamond is not able to save highscores.
> >
> > This problem occures also with the latest version of rocksndiamonds on
> > Ubuntu Quantal 12.10(developer branch).
> >
> > Please look at:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rocksndiamonds/+bug/304516
> >
> > greetings
> >
> > melchiaros
> >
> > Member of Ubuntu Bugsquad
>
> -- holger.schemel at artsoft.org
>
>
>
>
>
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