[Bug 1754356] Re: xdg-user-dirs-update does not take care of $HOME

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package xdg-user-dirs - 0.17-1ubuntu1

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xdg-user-dirs (0.17-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian. Remaining change:
    - Add launchpad_translation_export.patch:
      + update translations from Launchpad
  * Fixes xdg-user-dirs-update not respecting $HOME (LP: #1754356), thanks
    Trevinho.

xdg-user-dirs (0.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1754356)
  * Update Vcs fields for migration to https://salsa.debian.org/

xdg-user-dirs (0.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Drop 01_add-autostart-file.patch: Applied in new release
  * Update Vcs fields for conversion to git
  * Add debian/gbp.conf
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.2
  * Bump debhelper compat to 11

 -- Iain Lane <iain.lane at canonical.com>  Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:58:57 +0000

** Changed in: xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  xdg-user-dirs-update does not take care of $HOME

Status in xdg-user-dirs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xdg-user-dirs source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  When setting an user dir to a folder that is subfolder of $HOME (and
  when $HOME does not match the /etc/passwd defined home for the user),
  the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is wrongly generated.

  [ Test case ]

   1) env HOME=/tmp/temp-home xdg-user-dirs-update
   2) find /tmp/temp-home/
   3) should list generated XDG user directories
   4) /tmp/temp-home/.config/user-dirs.dirs should mention them

  Launching something like:
   - env HOME=/tmp/temp-home ./xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOADS "/tmp/temp-home/sub/folder/of/it/Downloads"

  Should modify /tmp/temp-home/.config/user-dirs.dirs so that it contains:
    XDG_DOWNLOADS_DIR="$HOME/sub/folder/of/it/Downloads"

  [ Regression potential ]

  Xdg folders could be generated in wrong locations.

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