* Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@rhi.hi.is>, 2015-10-11, 01:52:
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That the environmental variable "TMPDIR" retains its value.
Lintian sanitizes environment when calling external programs. (See the
clean_env function in lib/Lintian/Util.pm). It only keeps PATH and sets
LC_ALL to C or C.UTF-8.
We could certainly add TMPDIR to the whitelist.
But why is this a problem in practice? Does man, or any other external
command Lintian calls, create temporary files?
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Jakub Wilk
