Bug#798525: gnome-terminal doesn't cd into home directory when opening new tab or window

[Hanns Holger Rutz]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.14.1-1+deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

The latest Jessie maintenance updates introduced this new bug.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

gnome-terminal normally sets cwd to ~ (home directory). As of the last update,
this is broken, instead the last directory I was in in another tab is re-used.
Someone recommended putting `cd ~/` into `.bash_profile`, but this seems to be
ignored by gnome-terminal.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Opening a new tab or window should reset the cwd to home.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.14.1-1+deb8u1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.14.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdconf1                                    0.22.0-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+deb8u2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.14.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libuuid1                                     2.25.2-6
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                0.38.1-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  gvfs      1.22.2-1
ii  yelp      3.14.1-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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