Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bash

$HOME .profile file is intented for user specific settings of the bash
interpreter, but a new login after the user create a named 'bin' folder
inside her $HOME will be not exported on $PATH because 'export' clause
was missing.

--- .profile.orig       2008-10-29 19:27:40.000000000 -0200
+++ .profile    2008-10-29 19:45:51.000000000 -0200
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
 if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
-    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
+    export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
 fi

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 
PATH=/home/username/src/wireshark-1.0.3-asterix:/lpgs/hlproducts/netcdf/3.5.1/bin:/lpgs/hlproducts/gmt/4.0/bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

** Affects: bash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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user's 'bin' PATH isn't exported
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290918
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