Bug#688932: g_get_user_{cache, config, data}_dir () fail to meet XDG Base Directory Specification

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 26 octobre 2012 à 16:51 +0700, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : 
> 	As per XDG Base Directory Specification 0.8 (quoted below), the
> 	default values for XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and
> 	XDG_DATA_HOME, are both defined relative to the value of the
> 	HOME environment variable.  Contrary to that, the respective
> 	g_get_user_{cache,config,data}_dir () functions return values
> 	relative to the user's /initial/ home directory (as per
> 	getpwuid ()->pw_dir) by default instead.

Please discuss this with upstream. There is no way we will diverge on
such an important API compatibility matter.

Cheers,
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