Bug#783817: game-data-packager: consider new pseudo-Section for generated files?

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 12:40:10 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>Am 2025-05-24 22:09, schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
>>A "local/" section guaranteed to never exist for official  package
>>would do the trick.
>>and then APT would need to be teached about it;
>>and it would not be games specific at all.
>
>This sounds like a very good idea for the next release cycle.

game-data-packager already generates .deb files with
"Section: local/games"[1], so this isn't really an actionable request
for g-d-p any more: it's apt that would need to be taught about this
pseudo-Section (or perhaps more like a pseudo-archive-area).

play.it could also benefit from this.

Outside the games team, libdvdcss (generated by libdvd-pkg) could
usefully be in local/libs and local/libdevel.

     smcv

[1] except for a few shareware, demo, addon or otherwise redistributable
     packages, which are currently emitted as non-free/games, although
     that does mean they would be eligible for removal as "obsolete"