Re: Packages to remove from frozen

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

>>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:


 >> Package: emacs19 (debian/main).
 >> Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
 >> 57636 gnus under emacs19 opens files in /tmp insecurely

 Martin> Hmm, does gnus under emacs19 behave differently than under emacs20?
 Martin> And if so, why can't the fix backported?

        The behaviour of gnus is not emacs version dependent. Gnus
 depends on Emacs to do low level thuings like open files -- emacs20,
 probably, opens files in /tmp securely.

        So the fix lies in emacs20 code, not in Gnus.

        manoj
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