[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#869271: flightgear-data-base: Soft-link to tzdata should be absolute

[Antonio Trueba Gayol]

Package: flightgear-data-base
Version: 1:2017.2.1+dfsg-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

file /usr/share/games/flightgear/Timezone is a soft link to tzdata's files,
with a relative path "../../zoneinfo", which works OK in a standard
installation.

Due to this game's disk requirement's I've decided to move /usr/share/games
folder to a separate partition, and soft-link it to it's new home. This
resulted in fgfs failing to start with an erorr: "unable to find
Timezone/zone.tab", due to the previous soft-link now incorrectly pointing to a
non-existing relative path.

Changing that soft-link to point to the absolute path "/usr/share/zoneinfo"
solves the problem and the game can start normally again.

I suggest to change that link in the installation package since, given the disk
requirements of this game, many users would be tempted to proceed as I did in
order to save a significant amount of free space in root partition.


Thanks.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages flightgear-data-base depends on:
ii  fonts-liberation  1:1.07.4-2
ii  tzdata            2017b-2

flightgear-data-base recommends no packages.

flightgear-data-base suggests no packages.

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