[Fedora-packaging] Packaging games?

[Ryan Rix]

Hello all,

I am attempting to package IVAN (http://ivan.sf.net) as my first 
contribution to Fedora outside of bug reports. With the help of the fedora-
kde guys I mostly understand writing specs and the packaging process in 
general. I have just a few nagging questions that are keeping me from 
submitting this for review right now:

1) When packaging a game, is it safe to assume that the user who will be 
running this is a member of the games group?
2) If not, what is the best method of applying setgid to the /usr/bin/ivan 
in the spec file?
3) Is it acceptable by review standards to have a zero length file in the 
rpm, even if rpmlint moans about it? It's a high score file under /var/games 
that apparently cannot be created by the main executable. I tried patching 
the source to create the file automatically, but I couldn't figure out how; 
it's probably has something to do with permissions. The mode on the fopen 
call was already "wb" which 'should' work...
4) Are packaging guidelines for games spelt out anywhere?

Thanks for your time,
Ryan

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