Bug#801483: The environmental variable 'TMPDIR' is made unset by "lintian"
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 03:14:43PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> But why is this a problem in practice? Does man, or any other external
> command Lintian calls, create temporary files?
man currently only does so in the "man -H" case, which Lintian doesn't
use, and I try to avoid using them where I can. Various bits of groff
use temporary files, though, currently only in cases that Lintian
doesn't use, but there's certainly nothing to say this might not change
in the future.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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