Package: sylpheed-claws-gtk2 Version: 2.2.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.5 and possibly 9.1.1
Under certain circumstances, sylpheed-claws-gtk2 stores its "dotfiles" outside of $HOME. The Debian Policy demands that dotfiles are created "in the user's home directory". It seems sylpheed-claws uses getpwent or similar to figure out where the user's home directory is. While this is certainly correct if there is no $HOME defined, it must be considered incorrect when $HOME is defined. Failure to use the directory specified by $HOME makes it impossible to e.g. temporarily run sylpheed-claws-gtk2 with alternate configuration (except by doing some mv's before and after). It is also potentially destructive since users generally expect their $HOME to be safe from modifications by programs which are run in an environment with a different $HOME. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14+juhaj+v1.0 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sylpheed-claws-gtk2 depends on: ii libaspell15 0.60.4-4 GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcompfaceg1 1:1.5.2-3 Compress/decompress images for mai ii libetpan6 0.45-2 mail handling library ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-3 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-3 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libldap2 2.1.30-13 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpisock8 0.11.8-22 Library for communicating with a P ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8b-2 SSL shared libraries Versions of packages sylpheed-claws-gtk2 recommends: ii aspell-en [aspell-dictionary] 6.0-0-5 English dictionary for GNU Aspell ii metamail 2.7-51 implementation of MIME ii sylpheed-claws-gtk2-i18n 2.2.0-1 Locale data for Sylpheed-Claws GTK pn sylpheed-claws-scripts <none> (no description available) ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 1:1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded fr -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
