Policy on games' high-scores files
>From discussions on IRC and from lintian errors, I can see that files
in /var/lib/games/ (generally high-score and save-game files) should
not be conffiles, but instead should be managed through the
postinst and removed in the postrm if we're doing a purge.
This makes a lot of sense.
However, I don't think this is explained anywhere in the Policy Manual
-- in fact, conffiles are not mentioned in Policy at all. The
Packaging Manual does talk about them, but doesn't say anything
about special rules for high-score files and other game-related
files.
Can we get a policy decision on this?
Ben
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