severity 370257 important thanks On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:34:27PM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote:
> 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. 10.7.5 includes a single reference to $HOME; I don't see any grounds for claiming it's a violation of current policy to use getent passwd rather than $HOME. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
