[Linphone-users] Bug report: Linphone replaces a link to .linphonerc with actual file

[linphone]

Dear developers,

There is the following bug in recent version(s) of Linphone on Linux: If one 
moves the /home/[username]/.linphonerc file to a different location and 
replaces it with a soft link instead, the link gets overwritten with the actual 
file when Linphone starts.

I don't know when it started, just that it was not there in around April 
versions and is present now.

Test procedure:
1. Make sure that Linphone is closed completely (i.e. it's not present in the 
task bar)
2. Move both, /home/[username]/.linphonerc and 
/home/[username]/.linphone-history.db to a different drive (with a different 
file system) and place (soft) links to them in the original location.
3. Start Linphone (and let it sign into a previously configured SIP account)

Expected results:
3. Both links stay being links

Actual results:
3. /home/[username]/.linphone-history.db stays being a link, while 
/home/[username]/.linphonerc is overwritten with the actual file.

Note: This may have privacy/security implications if, e.g., the actual files 
(containing account names and passwords, etc.) had been moved to, e.g. an 
encrypted drive, but then re-appear in the unencrypted home directory again, in 
plain text - possibly without the user noticing.

Linphone 3.8.5, as provided by ppa:linphone/release; Linux Mint 17.1 (based on 
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty), 64 bit.

Kind regards,

Hannes