Hi Christian,

While this game is not maintained by the Games Team, this might be of interrest
to you: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2025/12/msg00016.html

This might be asking a bit too much.

In the meantime please consider using dh-sequence-cruft
which also allows you to trim packaging a bit.

This also gives you the extra "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /var/games" step for free.

I've asked piuparts to become less permissive in the future:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/piuparts/-/merge_requests/80


patch: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/circuslinux/-/merge_requests/4


Greetings

Alexandre
--- a/debian/circuslinux.postrm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -e
-
-if [ "$1" = purge ] && [ -e /var/games/circuslinux/scorefile ]; then
-  rm /var/games/circuslinux/scorefile
-fi
-
-#DEBHELPER#
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/circuslinux.purge
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/var/games/circuslinux/
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: autoconf,
                automake,
                debhelper-compat (= 13),
+               dh-sequence-cruft,
                devscripts,
                libsdl-image1.2-dev,
                libsdl-mixer1.2-dev,
--- a/debian/circuslinux.dirs
+++ b/debian/circuslinux.dirs
@@ -5,5 +5,3 @@ usr/share/games/circuslinux/data/music
 usr/share/games/circuslinux/data/sounds
 usr/share/man/man6
 usr/share/pixmaps
-var/games
-var/games/circuslinux