Package: translate Version: 0.6-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch hello,
translate polutes the home directory as it checks for ~/.translate and creates this directory if not existent. it doesn't write to files in that directory at any time, only reads ~/.translate/translate.conf if existent, therefore the directory is useless. users who want a local configuration for translate still can create ~/.translate/, they have to create ~/.translate/translate.conf anyway. i've attached a simple patch to prevent translate from creating this empty local confdir. ...jonas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-8-amd64 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages translate depends on: ii trans-de-en 1.4-1 A German-English translation dicti translate recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- /usr/bin/translate 2005-06-16 00:29:41.000000000 +0200 +++ translate 2005-09-07 04:10:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ echo $OPT "$1" | iconv -f UTF-8 } -# If there is no $LOCDIR we should create one -if [ ! -d $LOCDIR ] - then - echo -n "creating private folder $LOCDIR... " - mkdir $LOCDIR && echo "OK." -fi +# Don't create $LOCDIR automatically to prevent homedir polution +#if [ ! -d $LOCDIR ] +# then +# echo -n "creating private folder $LOCDIR... " +# mkdir $LOCDIR && echo "OK." +#fi # Read configuration file, if any if [ -r $GLOBALCONF ]
