Bug#388786: lintian fails on small /tmp and doesn't allow using a different place

[Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: normal

i've got a matlab 2006b debian package here that i debuild and lintian fails like 
this, here's my /etc/fstab as well. i wasn't able to tell lintian to use
a different temporary directory (i tried setting TMP, TEMP and reading the manual 
page, it could check available space and abort before that or use/try /var/tmp):

$ grep tmp /etc/fstab
none      /dev/shm  tmpfs  size=110%  0  0
/dev/shm  /tmp      none   rw,bind    0  0

$ df -h /tmp
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/shm              1.1G   66M  1.1G   6% /tmp

$ ls -lad *.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 sengun isg 963222050 Sep 22 13:45 dphys-matlab-2006_7.3-1_i386.deb

$ lintian *.changes
warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root privileges!
tar: dphys-matlab-2006-7.3/opt/matlab-2006b/toolbox/symbolic/@symlibs/maple.lib: 
Wrote only 1536 of 10240 bytes
... alot more lines ...
tar: 
dphys-matlab-2006-7.3/opt/matlab-2006b/toolbox/map/mapdemos/MtWashington-ft.txt: 
Cannot write: No space left on device
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf - gave error exit status 2
internal error: error occured during execution of dpkg-source in 
/tmp/8ivEXweYeZ/source/dphys-matlab-2006:
internal error: could not unpack package to desired level: No such file or directory
N: Skipping check of source package dphys-matlab-2006

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
internal error.
internal error: could not unpack package to desired level: No such file or directory
N: Skipping check of binary package dphys-matlab-2006

yours
guerkan