When freshly installing glines/five-or-more, the high score tables stay empty even when games are completed. Expected behaviour is for newly completed games to appear in the high score table if they have a higher score than the currently lowest-scoring game on the table. The direct cause of this is incorrect permissions on the high score tables; the current five-or-more package installs /var/games/glines.*.scores as 644 root/root, and the correct permissions are 664 root/games (as seen in many other game-related packages). (The 2755 root/games permissions on the executable itself are correct.)
The indirect cause is that there's an attempt made to install the high score tables in fresh installs via two different mechanisms; the postinst configure script tries to install them with the correct permissions, but it leaves the files as they currently are if they already exist; the binary package also tries to install them directly during unpack, but with the incorrect permissions. Unpack happens before configure, so first the unpack creates the files with the wrong permissions, and then the unpack leaves them alone.
The provided patch fixes this issue via removing the high score files from the binary package, leaving the postinst script in charge of creating them.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: five-or-more 1:3.8.2-1 [modified: var/games/glines.Small.scores]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jun 17 12:23:45 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-03 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: five-or-more
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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