Hi, after reading #759590, I think it is time to consider calling maintainer scripts in a (slightly) cleaned environment.
Short background: there is a bug in eatmydata (#702711) which currently breaks gnutls28 using apps in sid (the mentioned #759590). That wouldn't be too bad (noone runs their production servers with eatmydata), if the eatmydata LD_PRELOAD would not leak into running services because they are (re)started from maintainer-scripts which get the environment from the running apt. There is an old, wont-fix bug in dpkg about this: #18567, the corresponding discussion on -devel [1] agreed, that overriding $PATH is an useful argument against just cleaning the whole environment and hardcoding $PATH to something general. Yet I think there are vars I'd like not to have inside my running services and also not during other tasks inside of maintainer-scripts. I think systemd already does this, but I'd love a more generic solution for the "problem". Thoughts, solutions, pitchforks? Evgeni [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/10/msg00941.html -- Bruce Schneier can read and understand Perl programs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140902190951.gh27...@dorei.kerker.die-welt.net
