On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 09:42:39PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 03:14:43PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * 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. > > > > That should be done.. "clean_env" is (now) only used in > "po_debconf.pm" and "manpages.pm" in the ".../checks" directory. >
My regular "man"-script also contains $HOME, so it should also be whitelisted. -- Bjarni I. Gislason
