retitle 631081 dpkg: please clean environment for maintainer scripts reassign 631081 dpkg 1.16.0.3 thanks
As this bug's history shows, a recent libpam-afs-session upgrade made cron start syslogging errors that turned out to stem from my personal KRB5CCNAME setting having accidentally leaked into its environment. (sudo preserves that variable by default, which is appropriate in many contexts.) I historically also ran into trouble with leakage from my TEXMF setting (though I concede that sudo now filters that out itself), and Russ Allbery mentioned problems with Debconf-related variables leaking into xinetd invocations and from there ultimately into remote shells, breaking subsequent aptitude runs. To avoid such surprises, could dpkg please run maintainer scripts in cleaned enviroments? Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
