Bug#856728: opentyrian: When run via menu the game silently exits if data is missing

[Alexandre Detiste]

Le samedi 4 mars 2017, 13 h 35 min 14 s CET Andrej Mernik a écrit :
> Package: opentyrian
> Version: 2.1.20130907+dfsg-1
> Severity: important

Hi,

I had a patch for this that was proposed upstream,
then I completely forgot about it:

https://bitbucket.org/opentyrian/opentyrian/pull-requests/6/display-dialog-box-if-files-are-missing/diff

This could be reworked & simplified for Debian only.


> Alternatively, the installer script could ask the user if he wants to download and install the data files too. 

No, doing this in postinst script is dangerous (run as root,
files doesn't get registered as owned by opentyrian in dpkg database...)
we have a generic anwser to this generic problem and it's called game-data-packager.

Greets,

Alexandre Detiste