Bug#579218: lintian: uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/lintian line ...
Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> writes:
> Looks like I found two bugs, #579211 and "does weired things if PATH is
> not set" which might be much older. Workaround for the latter is
> simple: "env - PATH=...", so feel to ignore this part of the bug report
> if you don't think lintian should work without PATH set.
I can see various ways in which this could happen, and since it's not
particularly hard to be robust, we may as well. The next version of
Lintian will set a fallback path of /bin:/usr/bin (which should be all
that Lintian needs) if PATH is completely unset.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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