[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#674622: Misuse of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

[Michael Biebl]

Package: chromium
Version: 18.0.1025.168~r134367-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

looking through ~/.config, I noticed that ~/.config/chromium takes up
114MB on my system. A lot of those files don't look like configuration
files but data (extensions) or cache files (history index).
The worst offender space wise is the Default/ directory:

[michael at pluto Default]$ du -hs * | sort -h
4,0K	Cached Theme Images
4,0K	Current Tabs
4,0K	StrictTransportSecurity
4,0K	TransportSecurity
4,0K	User StyleSheets
8,0K	Extension Cookies
8,0K	Web Data-journal
12K	Login Data
16K	QuotaManager
16K	Shortcuts-journal
24K	databases
32K	Current Session
32K	Favicons-journal
76K	Bookmarks
76K	Bookmarks.bak
76K	History-journal
84K	Last Tabs
92K	Preferences
140K	Network Action Predictor-journal
172K	History Provider Cache
232K	Shortcuts
240K	Web Data
260K	Visited Links
352K	Last Session
464K	Top Sites
528K	Cookies
708K	Network Action Predictor
1,2M	Archived History
1,9M	Favicons
2,6M	Local Storage
3,9M	Extensions
3,9M	History
16M	History Index 2012-04
17M	History Index 2012-05
18M	History Index 2012-02
35M	History Index 2012-03

Please consider moving those files into proper locations as defined by
the XDG spec [1].

Cheers,
Michael

[1]
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  18.0.1025.168~r134367-1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-3
ii  libavcodec53        6:0.8.2-2
ii  libavformat53       6:0.8.2-2
ii  libavutil51         6:0.8.2-2
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.6-1
ii  libc6               2.13-32
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-2
ii  libcups2            1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.5.12-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5      2.0.19-stable-2
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-1
ii  libflac8            1.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-5
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.0-9
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.5-1
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-1
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1
ii  libnspr4-0d         2:4.9-3
ii  libnss3-1d          2:3.13.4-3
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.49-1
ii  libpulse0           2.0-3
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-5
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.0-9
ii  libudev0            175-3.1
ii  libwebp2            0.1.3-3
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-9.1
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-11
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

-- no debconf information