Package: less Version: 643-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch As title says, variable expansion and assignment is unreliable at best to not happening at worst when the '~' shorthand is used, the patch simply replaces it for the '$HOME' variable.
-- System Information: Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres) Release: 6 Codename: excalibur ceres Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.11.4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages less depends on: ii libc6 2.40-3 ii libtinfo6 6.5-2 less recommends no packages. less suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
>From a0cda7ff448e9c676ab104fbd763d761253c8e72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eylles <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:13:07 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Use HOME var The shorthand '~' has unreliable behaviour when used inside variable assignment and expansion, the HOME variable is preferred for such cases. --- debian/lesspipe | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/lesspipe b/debian/lesspipe index 57ef4f1..18abc19 100644 --- a/debian/lesspipe +++ b/debian/lesspipe @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ # $2 filename that was created during LESSOPEN TMPDIR=${TMPDIR:-/tmp} -CONFIGDIR=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config} +CONFIGDIR=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config} BASENAME=`basename $0` LESSFILE=lessfile @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then USERFILTER= if [ -x "$CONFIGDIR/lessfilter" ]; then USERFILTER="$CONFIGDIR/lessfilter" - elif [ -x ~/.lessfilter ]; then - USERFILTER=~/.lessfilter + elif [ -x "$HOME/.lessfilter" ]; then + USERFILTER="$HOME/.lessfilter" fi if [ -n "$USERFILTER" ]; then if [ $BASENAME = $LESSFILE ]; then -- 2.45.2
