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Bug#539597: marked as forwarded (openoffice.org: installation messing with user's HOME or settings?)

Your message dated Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:17:09 +0200
with message-id <20091004131709.GD7671@rene-engelhard.de>
has caused the   report #539597,
regarding openoffice.org: installation messing with user's HOME or settings?
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>

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severity 539597 minor
thanks

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 02:46:49PM +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> I agree that the bug is minor (not sure why I set it to normal when I  

ok

> reported it). The installation creates (tries to at least) a new  
> .execoooRANDOM directory in HOME that it removes afterwards.
>
>> but then again your $HOME is bogusly set to your users' home)
>
> I don't think any debian policy says it is bogus (but I agree this  
> provides an easy workaround, which maks the bug minor).
>
>> If you want this fixed, please file an issue upstream, I don't
>> want to fight with upstream for this...
>
> The code is in:
> patches/dev300/ooo80816.selinux.bridges.diff
>
> which uses HOME if it exists and /tmp otherwise.
>
> It seems to be from Fedora, not directly upstream. I may try to see with  

Indeed.

> them if they are willing to change it there, although it is more  
> complicated than setting HOME to a safe value in the script.

fwd to patch author. Caolan, please keep nnn-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
and Marc/Nico Cc'ed on replies.

Grüße/Regards,

Rene
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