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Bug#696354: marked as done (plasma-desktop: eats up /var/tmp with plasma_theme_*.kcache files > 80M each)

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and subject line Re: Bug#696354: plasma-desktop: eats up /var/tmp with plasma_theme_*.kcache files > 80M each
has caused the Debian Bug report #696354,
regarding plasma-desktop: eats up /var/tmp with plasma_theme_*.kcache files > 80M each
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Package: plasma-desktop
Version: 4:4.8.4-5
Severity: important

While updating I've found my root filesystem full. After searching for 
space to free, I found on /var/tmp/kdecache-${user} up to 11 files with 
size 84213856 each named "plasma_theme_${themename}.kcache". A few days 
ago I was testing several themes, however I didn't expect that for each 
one I tried it left a file of this considerable size. Globally, it eat 
up to 0.9G of disk space which was not reclaimed.

I don't know what are these files for, but given their size I believe 
they either should be put in /tmp if there are no longer necessary 
after reboot, or instead clean up the files for themes other than the 
one currently in use. I don't believe all of them are necessary at the 
same time.

Important because I'm not sure if it deserves an RC status, please
upgrade or downgrade.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages plasma-desktop depends on:
ii  kde-runtime               4:4.8.4-2
ii  kde-wallpapers-default    4:4.8.4-1
ii  libc6                     2.13-37
ii  libkactivities6           4:4.8.4-1
ii  libkcmutils4              4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkdecore5               4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkdeui5                 4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkephal4abi1            4:4.8.4-5
ii  libkfile4                 4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkidletime4             4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkio5                   4:4.8.4-4
ii  libknewstuff3-4           4:4.8.4-4
ii  libktexteditor4           4:4.8.4-4
ii  libkworkspace4abi1        4:4.8.4-5
ii  libplasma3                4:4.8.4-4
ii  libplasmagenericshell4    4:4.8.4-5
ii  libqt4-dbus               4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqt4-xml                4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2
ii  libsolid4                 4:4.8.4-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-4
ii  libtaskmanager4abi3       4:4.8.4-5
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.1-2
ii  plasma-widgets-workspace  4:4.8.4-5

Versions of packages plasma-desktop recommends:
ii  kde-workspace  4:4.8.4-5

plasma-desktop suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Version: 4:5.3.2-1

¡Hola Eloi!

El 2012-12-20 a las 00:10 +0100, Eloi Notario escribió:
Package: plasma-desktop Version: 4:4.8.4-5 Severity: important
While updating I've found my root filesystem full. After searching for space to free, I found on /var/tmp/kdecache-${user} up to 11 files with size 84213856 each named "plasma_theme_${themename}.kcache". A few days ago I was testing several themes, however I didn't expect that for each one I tried it left a file of this considerable size. Globally, it eat up to 0.9G of disk space which was not reclaimed.
This is working as intended, the files are actually smaller that the claimed space as they are used as sparse files. The use of /var/tmp/kdecache-${user} predates the $XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable currently used, deleting the files will negate any benefit from using a cache. From the numbers in the report, at least 100 themes were tested, which is not the most common use case.
I'm closing the issue with the release of plasma desktop which reduces the size of the plasma cache files to 16MB, and moves them to ~/.cache/plasma-theme_${theme}.kcache 

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