tags 370257 moreinfo thanks On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:34:27 +0300 Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. No getpwent call is present on the source code, only glib's g_get_home_dir is used IIRC. > 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. Please, can you post exact steps (and/or special configuration details) needed to make sylpheed-claws create its dotdir outside $HOME directory? thanks, -- Ricardo Mones ~ RTFM - "Read The Manual" (The 'F' is silent). Usually a very good idea. Bjarne Stroustrup
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