Seeking Sponsors for my package - roadfighter

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:49:15AM -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote:
> Now running lintian...
> 
> 2. E: roadfighter: arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share
> usr/share/games/roadfighter/roadfighter
> 
> 3. P: roadfighter: no-upstream-changelog
> 
> 6. I: roadfighter: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 13398kB 100%
> 
> 7. W: roadfighter: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/games/roadfighter
> 
> Finished running lintian.
> 
> =====
> 
> 2. Makefile upstream requires the binary is in the same directory with
> independent files in '/usr/share/games'. I have no idea how to solve
> this. :/

The canonical way to solve those issues ist trying to educate
upstream. Using sysmlinks might be a temporary fix.

> 6. I have no idea how to solve this. :/

The canonical way is to have an arch independent package containing
the /usr/share part and to having the arch dependent packages depend
on the arch independent package. That way, the big contents in
/usr/share is in the archive only once and not once per arch.

> 7. I made a 'd/install', but as demands that the binary is in the same
> location independent of the game files, which gave error "Segmentation
> fault".

What is actually installed to usr/games/roadfighter? Lintian says it's
something that the system cannot run in the first place.

And, a segmentation fault is always a bug that should be fixed,
preferably upstream.

Greetings
Marc

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