No game data are automatically installed

[Arie Skliarouk]

I installed rocksndiamonds package of version 3.2.4+dfsg-2
When asked which data files to download, I selected every one of them.

After installation finished, launch of rocksndiamonds yielded following message:
Game data not installed!

usage: #dpkg-reconfigure rocksndiamonds
for install/update game levels

I tried to reconfigure again the games to download and then nothing happened.

[Gregory Margo (gmargo)]

I confirm this bug.
The problem is caused by a bash-ism in the .postinst file, which fails if /bin/sh is dash.
The following patch fixes the problem:

--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/rocksndiamonds.postinst.00 2008-01-07 15:28:52.000000000 -0800
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/rocksndiamonds.postinst 2008-09-12 11:11:53.000000000 -0700
@@ -159,11 +159,11 @@

 if ($ARGV[0] eq 'configure')
 {
- system 'which update-menus &>/dev/null';
+ system 'which update-menus > /dev/null 2>&1';
   if ($? == 0)
   {
     print STDERR "Update menu\n";
- system 'update-menus &> /dev/null';
+ system 'update-menus > /dev/null 2>&1';
   }
 }

[Iakov Davydov (iakov-davydov)]

I confirm this bug

[Iakov Davydov (iakov-davydov)]

I confirm that editing rocksndiamonds-3.2.4+dfsg/debian/rocksndiamonds.postinst and rebuilding package fixes the problem.

[Michael Tänzer (neoatnhng)]

I confirm bug and fix

[Major Andras (majorandras)]

The bug exists in 3.2.6.0+dfsg-3 in jaunty beta.