Bug#848001: supertuxkart: Fix credits for Boom-boom-boom song

[Vincent Cheng]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:56 AM, James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org> wrote:
> On 02/01/17 22:03, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Legimet <legimet.calc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just to be clear, this affects the credits that show up after clicking the
>>> "About" button in the lower-right corner of the start screen. To fix it, the
>>> file data/CREDITS needs to be changed.
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 12, 2016 9:39:30 PM EST Legimet wrote:
>>>> Package: supertuxkart
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>
>>>> In the credits (data/CREDITS), the Boom-boom-boom song should be
>>>> credited to its author, Keith Baylis aka Vim, rather than Matt Thomas.
>>
>> diff recognizes data/CREDITS as a binary file instead of a plain-text
>> ASCII file or similar; I can't generate a quilt patch to fix this. The
>> only way to fix this bug right now would be to repack the orig tarball
>> yet again, which I would rather not do. Given that this has already
>> been fixed upstream [1], I'm inclined to just wait for a new upstream
>> release instead.
>
> Couldn't you just install a new CREDITS file manually (overwriting the
> old one after dh_install)? I'm not saying that's the best idea, but you
> don't have to repack the tarball for this.

Ack, that's true. I suppose the only problem with that approach is if
I forget to remove the CREDITS file I added once a new upstream
release is made. I'd rather not have yet another thing on my todo list
to keep track of. ;)

Regards,
Vincent