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Bug#559852: xinit: --tmpdir is not supported by Lenny's mktemp



Hi Sven,

On Mon, Dec  7, 2009 at 07:34:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Quoting the Debian changelog:
> 
> ,----
> | xinit (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
> | 
> |   [ Julien Cristau ]
> |   * 06_move_serverauthfile_into_tmp.diff: use mktemp --tmpdir to honour
> |     $TMPDIR (closes: #480958).
> `----
> 
> The mktemp version in Lenny does not understand the --tmpdir option,
> which will break startx in some interesting ways.  You should either
> 
> - depend on coreutils (>= 7.4-1) to ensure that the coreutils version of
>   mktemp is used, or
> 
> - remove the --tmpdir switch, since the coreutils version of mktemp
>   honors TMPDIR by default (the Lenny version of mktemp will create the
>   file in /tmp, as before).

Either of those is fine with me, can you fix it up in git?  Thanks for
your report!

Cheers,
Julien

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