Relative symlink in /var/lib/transmission-daemon should be absolute

[Jason Heeris]

~ ⌘ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04

~ ⌘ apt-cache policy transmission-daemon
transmission-daemon:
  Installed: 2.92-3ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.92-3ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.92-3ubuntu2 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

After installing transmission-daemon, the directory /var/lib/transmission-daemon/ contains a directory symlinked to '.config/transmission-daemon':

~ ⌘ sudo ls -alh /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 7 2018 /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info -> .config/transmission-daemon

Since this is a relative link, if I start transmission-daemon in an arbitrary directory, I get the following errors:

~ ⌘ sudo -u debian-transmission transmission-daemon -f --log-error --log-info --log-debug
[2019-05-14 11:29:52.373] Couldn't read "/home/jason/.config/user-dirs.dirs": Permission denied
[2019-05-14 11:29:53.628] Couldn't create "/home/jason/.config/transmission-daemon": Permission denied (file-posix.c:189)
[2019-05-14 11:29:53.628] Couldn't create "/home/jason/.config/transmission-daemon": Permission denied (file-posix.c:189)
[2019-05-14 11:29:53.628] Couldn't create "/home/jason/.config/transmission-daemon": Permission denied (file-posix.c:189)
[2019-05-14 11:29:53.628] Transmission 2.92 (14714) started (session.c:740)
[2019-05-14 11:29:53.628] Couldn't read "/home/jason/.config/transmission-daemon/stats.json": No such file or directory (utils.c:238)
[2019-05-14 11:29:53.628] Couldn't read "/home/jason/.config/transmission-daemon/stats.benc": No such file or directory (utils.c:238)

It seems like this should be an absolute link, since there actually is a directory /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/.config/transmission-daemon

[Jason Heeris (detly)]

I think my report is not accurate. Replacing the symlink with an absolute one didn't help. Transmission seems to want to read my user dirs no matter what.