Comment 5 for bug 123623

I'll elaborate a bit. gnome-hearts upstream carries it's own cards graphics in /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-hearts/cards/. For debian this was changed. gnome-games-data was split in gnome-games-data and gnome-cards-data and gnome-hearts depends on gnome-cards-data. These cards are located in /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-games-common/cards/. The 01_gnome-cards-data.patch in debian's gnome-hearts changes the standard path to look in there.

Your problem is that Ubuntu's gnome-cards-data is borked. It doesn't contain any cards. I believe this is caused because Ubuntu packages GNOME themselves instead of taking Debian's packages. There are two possible fixes:

* Reassign this bug to gnome-games and fix your gnome-cards-data package. This is annoying because you package gnome's gnome-games and not debian's gnome-games.

or

* Don't use debian's gnome-hearts but package gnome-hearts directly from upstream (from me at www.jejik.com) and make sure that you drop all patches that are in the Debian package. I have suggested this before on previous bugs and it's the best solution IMHO. Debian's gnome-hearts works with Debian's GNOME. If you don't use Debian's GNOME then don't use Debian's gnome-hearts.