Launcher tries to create "logs" directory in /opt/minecraft-launcher

When the launcher is launching Minecraft, it tries to create logs directory under /opt/minecraft-launcher instead of using ~/.minecraft/logs where they've been located before:

[0903/175746:INFO:GameCallbacks.cpp(178)] game/game () error 2017-09-03 17:57:45,952 main ERROR Cannot access RandomAccessFile java.io.IOException: Could not create directory /opt/minecraft-
launcher/logs java.io.IOException: Could not create directory /opt/minecraft-launcher/logs
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.FileUtils.mkdir(FileUtils.java:119)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.FileUtils.makeParentDirs(FileUtils.java:136)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingRandomAccessFileManager$RollingRandomAccessFileManagerFactory.createManager(RollingRandomAccessFileManager.java:179)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingRandomAccessFileManager$RollingRandomAccessFileManagerFactory.createManager(RollingRandomAccessFileManager.java:156)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractManager.getManager(AbstractManager.java:112)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.getManager(OutputStreamManager.java:114)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingRandomAccessFileManager.getRollingRandomAccessFileManager(RollingRandomAccessFileManager.java:87)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingRandomAccessFileAppender$Builder.build(RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.java:115)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingRandomAccessFileAppender$Builder.build(RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.java:52)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:122)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:952)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:892)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:884)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:508)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize(AbstractConfiguration.java:232)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:244)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:545)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:617)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:634)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:229)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:152)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:45)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getContext(LogManager.java:194)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:551)
        at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:537)
        at bib.<clinit>(SourceFile:224)
        at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:38)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135)
        at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)

Affected version is 2.0.931 downloaded from https://launcher.mojang.com/mc-staging/download/Minecraft_staging.deb which I cannot input in affected version field