Bug#388399: FTBFS problems on alpha, mips[el]: Please help debugging

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

clone 388399 -1
retitle -1 Font cache, when in /tmp, should use per-user directories
severity -1 important
submitter -1 Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>
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Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> So somewhere, there is a very, very wrong assumption that it's ok to use a
>> fixed, user-invariant path under /tmp for writing out fonts.
>
> [...] Why should it be more wrong to use a user-invariant path in
> /tmp than a user-invariant path in /var?  Note that we cannot use
> directories created with mktemp or so, because it's not possible to pass
> on the directory name from the process that creates the dir, to the one
> that creates the font and to the one that uses it.

But you are right, Steve, that it might cause problems.  I make this a
separate bug, and I'm already investigating a solution.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)