Package: xindy Version: 2.5.1.20160104-10 Severity: important xindy(1) does various funny things if a filename contains characters that are not usually used in filenames:
$ touch '>t0' $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 0 Jul 17 01:21 '>t0' $ xindy '>t0' 2>/dev/null $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 0 Jul 17 01:21 '>t0' -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 0 Jul 17 01:21 t0 $ touch '|echo wibble' $ xindy '|echo wibble' 2>/dev/null wibble $ These arise from its use of the <> Perl operator, which is not suitable for the implementation of a read-from-list-of-files kind of command. Because the range of misbehaviour includes writing to arbitrary files and running arbitrary commands, this is a more severe bug than normal. -zefram
