My main reason for stalling was because of the insecure use of mktmp. I made a wrapper script that refuses to run dmake if it is started in a group or world writable directory. Does that work for you?
Talking about "mktmp":I noticed that "/usr/bin/openoffice" still contains use of a temporary file not using "mktemp" nor "tempfile". May I submit a patch? What do you think of it? Which one to use, "mktemp" or "tempfile"? I would rather use "tempfile" (both are contained in package "debianutils", so it doesn't really matter).
Regards