[Aptitude-devel] Bug#894332: aptitude fails to follow free desktop basedir specifications

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.10-6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Thank you for maintaining aptitude for as long as you have. For
reasons unknown, aptitude hasn't used free desktop basedir
specifications while quite a few desktops and other software has
moved.

See https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
for the latest spec.

The one which I am concerned about is in the environment variables -

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user
specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is
either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be
used.


I can understand that there exists a possibility of breakage if the
change is introduced in the next release or something.

I am basing this from the info. in the manpage at the bottom -

FILES
       /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
           The file in which stored package states and some package
flags are stored.

       /etc/apt/apt.conf, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*, ~/.aptitude/config
           The configuration files for aptitude.  ~/.aptitude/config
overrides /etc/apt/apt.conf. See apt.conf(5) for documentation of the
format and contents of these files.


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.10
Compiler: g++ 7.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20180127
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc85dda000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
(0x00007fb2b0c2a000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fb2b09fa000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fb2b07d0000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007fb2b05c9000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007fb2b02d1000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007fb2affc6000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0
(0x00007fb2afdae000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0
(0x00007fb2afb95000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0
(0x00007fb2af991000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30
(0x00007fb2af586000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb2af368000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb2aefe3000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb2aec50000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb2aea38000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb2ae67e000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fb2ae467000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb2ae24d000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fb2ae03d000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fb2ade17000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fb2adc05000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fb2ad9e7000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb2b15f9000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb2ad7e3000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fb2ad5db000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fb2ad3d4000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (100, 'experimental'), (100, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.10-6
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.6~beta1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-5
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-5
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-5
ii  libc6                      2.27-2
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-7
ii  libgcc1                    1:8-20180321-1
ii  libncursesw5               6.1-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.22.0-2
ii  libstdc++6                 8-20180321-1
ii  libtinfo5                  6.1-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.5-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.12

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.49
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  debtags                         2.1.5
ii  tasksel                         3.43

-- no debconf information

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          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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