On 2010-08-26 11:30, Josselin Mouette wrote : >> unfortunately, corrective action must be taken for already polluted >> systems: >> - corrective action, Desktop must be created and desktop data >> migrated to it by user > > Which makes the fix not simple. Not quite so. Systems that have been badly damaged by this bug can be easily detected and, in that case, xdg-user-dirs can be made to continue to damage them. Instructions can be written for the user to put the system right so that xdg-user-dirs can do the right thing. > You should bring this issue upstream. There is no reason for Debian to > diverge from upstream on such a large scale. I'm getting mad, or is it not me. I understood that Ubuntu has just sent me "upstream to Debian". And yourself don't tell me where that is.
I thought that Open Software wanted to be helped but I must conclude they do not.
