Re: Hyper gammon

[Russ Allbery]

Philippe Michel <philippe.michel7@free.fr> writes:

> I'm sorry if I seemed critical or harsh. Although I'm not familiar witth
> Debian I should have searched further than I did (that is, the man
> page).

Oh, no, not at all!  I very much welcome the feedback on the Debian
packaging and I always feel bad when packaging issues cause problems
upstream.

> Regarding the files locations, I agree with the principles you give.

>> However, the deeper problem is that files that are generated by the
>> user shouldn't be put into /usr/share *or* /var/lib.  Both of those
>> paths are intended to only be written to by privileged users.  The best
>> place to load additional user-supplied bearoff databases and
>> hypergammon databases would be using XDG paths in the user's home
>> directory, and gnubg should ideally use a search path that looks in the
>> user's home directory first, and then in /var/lib and /usr/share if the
>> file cannot be found there.

Great, if I manage to find some time to work on this I'll send you a
patch.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)             <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>