package-section-games-but-contains-no-game

This package is marked as part of the section games, but doesn't contain files in /usr/games. Binaries of games must be installed in /usr/games.

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The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check games.

Visibility: error

The following 7 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 8 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 5 overrides. The tag performed 38% of the time.

- # The Debian Games team is split about whether or not to implement packages in this way. Fedora and most upstreams do not install into /usr/games. Not using /usr/games seems to be the direction for distro standardization.

- # The Debian Games team is split about whether or not to implement packages in this way. Fedora and most upstreams do not install into /usr/games. Not using /usr/games seems to be the direction for distro standardization.