Thanks for the upstream bug, I'll be following it closely.
Regarding the other half of the problem (XDG base directory
specification compliance), bug #1575053 does say this in its
description:
Therefore snap packages should base the value of SNAP_USER_DATA on
the value of XDG_DATA_HOME (or its specified default). For the "notes"
snap, this would be "$HOME/.local/share/snap/notes/1".
So I think that bug and the problem you're describing are essentially
the same.
As to comment #6, can you elaborate on how you copied the existing
profile? This code path has been exercised quite a bit by all users who
migrated from the deb to the snap (the majority probably didn't even
notice), and I haven't seen any complaint yet.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887804
Title:
chromium-browser does not follow XDG base directory specification
Status in Chromium Browser:
New
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Currently Chromium does not follow the XDG base directory
specification which means that the cache and configuration folder
aren't properly used.
This causes the issue that it's nearly impossible to properly migrate
or back up Chromium configuration (between computers) and it makes for
example mounting cache as tmpfs or wiping it very very difficult.
I felt those both immensely when trying to migrate my home folder,
gigabytes of cache in ~/snap/chromium/[id]/.config/chromium/[folder]
(and ~/snap itself is also not XDG base directory specification
compliant, shame!).
There's also the issue that the previous configuration that is located
properly, isn't migrated by the migrational package.
In order to fix this bug, it would require making the snap package
follow the XDG base directory specification.
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