Bug#286379: Lintian insecure removal bug (#286379)

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:43:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > > Should we prepare a security upload for woody for this issue? Do you
> > > agree or not that this is a security bug in woody that should be fixed?
> > 
> > I wonder if this isn't that low that it wouldn't require an update.
> > Who would remove lintian?  It needs to be installed manually and
> > will only be done manually by the admin after there is some need.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I think you've misunderstood. The bug happens on
> each execution of lintian (as a regular user normally), by default. The
> lintian lab is setup and removed (<- bug) every invocation unless the
> admin or user has set up a permanent lab, which is rare.

Please use CAN-2004-1000 for this problem.

Regards,

	Joey

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