Ubuntu
mpv package

mpv falls back to XDG base directory incompliant behaviour

Bug #1887717 reported by Avamander
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mpv (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Due to this commit: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/269f0e743e5634691f0c9d5b1b8a4bb68eedbbd0

mpv will fall back on incorrect XDG base directory speficiation incompliant behaviour by default. In order to avoid that, Ubuntu should during installation create the folder ~/$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mpv and fix that regression.

This is more of a request to Ubuntu maintainers to update the installation script because upstream clearly does not wish to collaborate.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mpv (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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V. A. (nyappy) wrote :

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/7978

There is an ongoing discussion to revert this commit.

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V. A. (nyappy) wrote :

wm4 just shut down the discussion. Ubuntu should just define $MPV_HOME as ~/.config/mpv to make mpv use the XDG directory.

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soredake (soredake) wrote :

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/8177

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