Steffen Joeris wrote: > I had a read through the issue and to me it sounds like pristine-tar is > broken > or at least expects the perl-module to work, where it IMHO should have never > worked. I am wondering how many packages are affecting by this or assuming > this behaviour.
Well, I can't see anything in the docs to File::Temp or perldelta that suggest
that chdiring into the temp dir is not allowed.
Consider that if you want a temp dir, you want a temporary workspace. If all
your work is going to occur within a workspace, it makes a certian sense to
chdir to it. I'd expect it to be more common for a shell script to do such a
thing than a perl script, but I suspect that the number of perl scripts that do
it is greater than the two we know of. Most of them are probably lurking in
/usr/local/bin of various systems.
Of course, I put a workaround for the problem into pristine-tar already:
# Workaround for bug #479317 in perl 5.10.
sub END {
chdir("/");
}
That seems to have held up ok in the real world.
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