* Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>, 2015-10-11, 01:52:
* What outcome did you expect instead? That the environmental variable "TMPDIR" retains its value.
Lintian sanitizes environment when calling external programs. (See the clean_env function in lib/Lintian/Util.pm). It only keeps PATH and sets LC_ALL to C or C.UTF-8.
We could certainly add TMPDIR to the whitelist.But why is this a problem in practice? Does man, or any other external command Lintian calls, create temporary files?
-- Jakub Wilk