* Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> [2025-02-26 20:33]:
("may" and "encouraged" here have their official Policy meanings)--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst index 6fda3b1..c2e4700 100644 --- a/policy/ch-files.rst +++ b/policy/ch-files.rst @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ to the ``debian-devel`` mailing list and try to find a consensus about which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, *both* programs must be renamed. +There is a exception to the above rules for ``/usr/games``: packages that +already install programs to ``/usr/games``, where another package installs a +program of the same with different functionality to a different directory on +the default ``PATH``, may continue to do so. However, packages must not +install any newly conflicting programs to ``/usr/games``, and packages already +doing so are encouraged to move these programs to non-conflicting names. + Packages must not install files to paths whose first component is a name directly under the file system root and which is a symbolic link to a directory of the same name under ``/usr``. That is, packages must not install --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Seconded. Cheers Jochen
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