[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#1049454: mpd: purge script will forget a PulseAudio cookie in /var/lib/mpd/.config

[Max Kellermann]

On 2023/08/16 13:23, Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some other packages have similar problems...
> Here HOME=/ and users get tiny useless files at the root of the filesystem:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1042725

Just because others are doing it just as wrong doesn't prove libpulse
correct.  If you delete those files during purge, you're sidestepping
the problem instead of fixing it.

> /var/lib/lightdm/.cache

Cache file, forgot to set CacheDirectory or didn't obey
$XDG_CACHE_DIRECTORY.  Either way it's a bug that can be fixed easily.

> /var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse
> /var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/*

Belongs in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, not in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.  Can be fixed
easily.

> /var/lib/lightdm/.dbus
> /var/lib/lightdm/.dbus/session-bus
> /var/lib/lightdm/.dbus/session-bus/*

What the .... is ~/.dbus?  Looks like runtime files that belong in
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, not in $HOME.