Bug#360217: lintian: should clean invocation environment
Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.16
> Severity: normal
> I have CDPATH set in my environment. This causes "cd" to print the new
> working directory, which in turn confuses lintian's has-errors-from-man
> detector so that a bogus error is reported.
> lintian should clean its environment before doing any tests that use a
> shell.
Good catch. Fixing this now, fairly comprehensively. You would have
potentially had the same problem with one of the po-debconf checks, and
you may have been seeing extraneous output in the collection phase from
objdump-info.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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