Bug#786745: game-data-packager: parental control / rating

[Alexandre Detiste]

Package: game-data-packager
Version: 42
Severity: minor


When you use g-d-p, at the last step you'll
need root password to install the .deb .

To buy most rated games, you'll need a credit card too
(or "leet warez skilzz").

And G-D-P is just a mean to automatize the data-locating,
unzipping, etc... thing.

So parental control in GDP seems pointless
or could be easily worked around.

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But, this control could well happen a runtime
if deemed usefull:

The data in /usr/share/games/<game> are
either owned root:rated 0640 (user white-listing)
or           root:child 0604 (user black-listing).

The .desktop file could also include a similarly
owned Try-Exec.

The groups would need to be created in package
pre-inst.

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This problem is not G-D-P specific at all,
the retail box of Ultimate Doom I own states:
"BBFC - Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over".

So this could likely apply to doom-wad-shareware too.



Maybe just documenting this would be enough.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages game-data-packager depends on:
ii  fakeroot        1.20.2-1
ii  python3         3.4.2-2
ii  python3-debian  0.1.27
ii  python3-yaml    3.11-2
pn  python3:any     <none>

game-data-packager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages game-data-packager suggests:
ii  arj                   3.10.22-13
ii  binutils              2.25-7
ii  cabextract            1.6-1
ii  cdparanoia            3.10.2+debian-11
ii  dynamite              0.1.1-2
ii  gcc                   4:4.9.2-4
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0        3.14.5-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0      1.36.8-3
ii  innoextract           1.4-1+b1
ii  lgc-pg                1.2.6-1
ii  lhasa [lzh-archiver]  0.3.0-2
ii  make                  4.0-8.1
ii  p7zip-full            9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1
ii  python3-gi            3.14.0-1
ii  unace-nonfree         2.5-8
pn  unrar-nonfree         <none>
ii  unshield              1.0-1
ii  unzip                 6.0-17
ii  vorbis-tools          1.4.0-6

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/game-data-packager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information