Bug#476636: alienblaster: Highscore saving broken; "~" is no directory

[Johan Walles]

Package: alienblaster
Version: 1.1.0-1
Severity: normal


>From strace alienblaster:
...
open("~/.alienblaster_highscore", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...

~ is not a directory name.  If you type it in bash, it is expanded to the user's $HOME directory.

If you are not in bash, you must use something like getenv("HOME") to find the user's home directory.

  Regards //Johan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alienblaster depends on:
ii  alienblaster-data             1.1.0-1    Game data for Alien Blaster
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.0-3  GCC support library
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2               1.2.8-3    mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.13-2   Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.0-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

alienblaster recommends no packages.

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