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



Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> writes:

> 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):

lintian certainly shouldn't try to check; that's error-prone, possibly
unportable, and problematic.  It also shouldn't try to use /var/tmp
without explicit configuration since the semantics of /var/tmp are
different and aren't the semantics that lintian wants.

lintian follows the normal Unix convention of honoring TMPDIR as a
location into which to put temporary files, but that wasn't documented
anywhere that I could see.  I've added explicit documentation to the man
page.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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