xdg-user-dirs-update does not take care of $HOME

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xenial is uploaded, for bionic I asked for a review from seb128 which is pending and I'll upload shortly

This bug was fixed in the package xdg-user-dirs - 0.17-1ubuntu1

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xdg-user-dirs (0.17-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian. Remaining change:
    - Add launchpad_translation_export.patch:
      + update translations from Launchpad
  * Fixes xdg-user-dirs-update not respecting $HOME (LP: #1754356), thanks
    Trevinho.

xdg-user-dirs (0.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1754356)
  * Update Vcs fields for migration to https://salsa.debian.org/

xdg-user-dirs (0.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Drop 01_add-autostart-file.patch: Applied in new release
  * Update Vcs fields for conversion to git
  * Add debian/gbp.conf
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.2
  * Bump debhelper compat to 11

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:58:57 +0000

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xdg-user-dirs into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/0.15-2ubuntu6.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Can confirm it works.

marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ apt-cache policy xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs:
  Installato: 0.15-2ubuntu6.16.04.1
  Candidato: 0.15-2ubuntu6.16.04.1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 0.15-2ubuntu6.16.04.1 100

Before upgrading:

marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ env HOME=/tmp/temp-home xdg-user-dirs-update
marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ find /tmp/temp-home/
find: '/tmp/temp-home': No such file or directory

After:

marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ env HOME=/tmp/temp-home xdg-user-dirs-update
marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ find temp-home/
temp-home/
temp-home/Video
temp-home/Modelli
temp-home/.config
temp-home/.config/user-dirs.locale
temp-home/.config/user-dirs.dirs
temp-home/Documenti
temp-home/Immagini
temp-home/Scaricati
temp-home/Pubblici
temp-home/Scrivania
temp-home/Musica

marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ env HOME=/tmp/temp-home xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOADS \
                     "/tmp/temp-home/sub/folder/of/it/Downloads"
marco@tricky:/tmp:✓ $ cat temp-home/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Scrivania"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Scaricati"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Modelli"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Pubblici"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documenti"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musica"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Immagini"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Video"
XDG_DOWNLOADS_DIR="$HOME/sub/folder/of/it/Downloads"

This bug was fixed in the package xdg-user-dirs - 0.15-2ubuntu6.16.04.1

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xdg-user-dirs (0.15-2ubuntu6.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/xdg-user-dirs-update-give-priority-to-HOME.patch:
    - use $HOME as preferred before using getpw (LP: #1754356)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:16:45 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for xdg-user-dirs has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.