Bug#701477: lintian: Should it support XDG?

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, 2013-03-03, 16:32:
> Supporting XDG_CONFIG_{HOME,DIRS} can be done fairly easily, see 
> attached patch (which is bluntly assuming we are dropping 
> LINTIAN_ROOT/lintianrc).

Looks good to me. (Although I wonder why loading File::BaseDir is 
guarded by eval. libfile-basedir-perl is in Depends, so there's no 
reason for the import to fail. Or am I missing something?)

> > When I set LINTIAN_ROOT to something non-default, I expect that 
> > /usr/share/lintian won't be on the search path. I think we should 
> > completely ignore XDG_DATA_DIRS if LINTIAN_ROOT is set.
> Obviously, I missed the most common use of LINTIAN_ROOT/--root.
>
> > Or maybe ignoring XDG_*_DIRS completely (and honouring only 
> > XDG_*_HOME) is the way to go? That would make keeping backwards 
> > compatiblity easier.
> Of the two suggestions, I am more tempted towards ignoring 
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS if $LINTIAN_ROOT (or --root) is involved.

Fair enough.

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Jakub Wilk