[Python-modules-team] Bug#568757: PyXDG and the BaseDir Spec

[Éric Araujo]

Package: pyxdg
Severity: normal

Two precisions. First, I hope I chose the right severity for the bug;
it seems to me that not respecting the spec in this sem-corner
case is really bad for the official XDG Python package.

Second, I changed os.getenv('HOME') to os.path.expanduser('~')
because $HOME is not guaranteed to work in every situation,
whereas getent (in shell) and expanduser (in Python) are. I can’t
remember where I read a vert good explanation about this, but I
hope you’ll concur.

Regards


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