Bug#684691: pulseaudio creates /.pulse and /.pulse-cookie

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:53:29AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Severity important as it IMHO contradicts the FHS and is thereby against the
> Debian Policy.
> 
> pulseaudio seems to create /.pulse and /.pulse-cookie (again and again).
> 
> The root of the filesystem is surely not the place for any Tom, Dick and Harry
> to create files there, neither pulseaudio.
> I guess these files should likely go to some place below /var.

Does this still happen? I've had this at some point, but cna't reproduce it
anymore (suspecting the new gdm3 was somehow involved, but i couldn't find an obvious
change)?

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