Bug#916303: steam: installs to ~/.steam, which is not as intended by upstream

[Simon McVittie]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 11:45:21 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> In this email I'll refer to the installation root as $STEAMDIR and
> the symlink farm as $STEAMCONFIG (those are the names used in Valve's
> /usr/bin/steam). The current /usr/games/steam in Debian uses $config to
> represent both; my proposed patches used $root and $config respectively
> (but I might revise them to use the same names that Valve do, in an
> attempt to make the situation easier to understand).

Done in my patch for #919467, which fixes pre-existing data loss when switching
between installation layouts.

With that change applied, the script supports both ways round and the change
under discussion on this bug reduces to "change the default", as attached.
Also available at <https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/steam/merge_requests/1>.

    smcv