Bug#690360: konsole: temprorary data should go to /var/tmp
Package: konsole
Version: 4:4.8.4-1
Severity: normal
Given that all are moving in the direction of having /tmp on tmpfs,
should applications be fixed?
>From what I recollect from the last discussion on this topic, it was
agreed that /tmp is for temporary files with no guarantee to be
available. For this explanation, there is no breakage currently.
But the problem lies with most applications that write large amount of
temporary data into /tmp/.
In this case, konsole is logging 6 MiB of log file to /tmp. I think this
is because I have enabled "Unlimited Scrolling" in konsole's preferenes.
Should this data (and similar candidates from other applications) go into
/var/tmp/ ?
rrs@champaran:/var/cache/pbuilder$ ls /tmp/kde-rrs/ -lh
total 6.3M
-rw------- 1 rrs rrs 417 Oct 13 13:26 konsolebg3974.tmp
-rw------- 1 rrs rrs 28K Oct 13 13:25 konsoleDp3974.tmp
-rw------- 1 rrs rrs 6.8K Oct 13 13:25 konsoleMQ3974.tmp
-rw------- 1 rrs rrs 1.7K Oct 13 13:26 konsoleNk3974.tmp
-rw------- 1 rrs rrs 6.0M Oct 13 13:25 konsoleOT3974.tmp
-rw------- 1 rrs rrs 216K Oct 13 13:26 konsoleSh3974.tmp
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages konsole depends on:
ii kde-runtime 4:4.8.4-1
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libkdecore5 4:4.8.4-3
ii libkdeui5 4:4.8.4-3
ii libkio5 4:4.8.4-3
ii libknotifyconfig4 4:4.8.4-3
ii libkonq5abi1 4:4.8.4-1
ii libkparts4 4:4.8.4-3
ii libkpty4 4:4.8.4-3
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
konsole recommends no packages.
konsole suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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