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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

- Steps to reproduce:
+ 1) lsb_release -rd
+ Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
+ Release:	15.04
  
- 1. Open a tarball with file-roller
- 2. Open a file within the archive without explicitly extracting it. (Such as by double clicking the file)
- 3. Notice that the file is extracted to a directory ~/.fr-*
- 4. Close file-roller. If you used file-roller's GUI to exit, the temporary file(s) and directory are deleted. However, if you kill it via SIGTERM or logout without exiting file-roller (I presume that sends either SIGTERM or SIGHUP), the temp files are left behind.
+ 2) apt-cache policy file-roller
+ file-roller:
+   Installed: 3.12.2-0ubuntu1
+   Candidate: 3.12.2-0ubuntu1
+   Version table:
+  *** 3.12.2-0ubuntu1 0
+         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
- There are two problems with this:
+ 3) What is expected to happen is when one opens a tarball with file-
+ roller, and without extracting the file, open it (ex. open PDF file with
+ evince) the file-roller utilizes /tmp for this.
  
- 1. file-roller should clean up its temp files on exit, regardless of the exit method (with the obvious exception of SIGKILL, which can't be trapped).
- 2. The proper place for temporary files is /tmp. Dotfiles in $HOME are for program settings and the like. In the event that file-roller doesn't clean up its temp files, they just pollute $HOME and waste disk space. However, /tmp is cleaned on boot (or is it in shutdown?), so pollution and wasted disk space is minimized.
+ 4) What happens instead is file-roller utilizes a directory ~/.cache/.fr-* , where * is a changing folder name. If one logs out, or kills the file-roller process via:
+ kill PID
+ 
+ the temp files are left behind.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716

Title:
  file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp

Status in File Roller:
  New
Status in file-roller package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
  Release:	15.04

  2) apt-cache policy file-roller
  file-roller:
    Installed: 3.12.2-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.12.2-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.12.2-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) What is expected to happen is when one opens a tarball with file-
  roller, and without extracting the file, open it (ex. open PDF file
  with evince) the file-roller utilizes /tmp for this.

  4) What happens instead is file-roller utilizes a directory ~/.cache/.fr-* , where * is a changing folder name. If one logs out, or kills the file-roller process via:
  kill PID

  the temp files are left behind.

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