Bug#801483: The environmental variable 'TMPDIR' is made unset by "lintian"
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Seeking an error that came when executing "lintian".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
The folowing simple script shows the error:
#!/bin/bash
set -u
echo TMPDIR is $TMPDIR
/usr/bin/man $*
# end of script.
Put the script, named "man", in a directory that is searched before "/usr/bin".
Command line (any "deb"-file can be used (that contains a man-page?)):
lintian -C manpages /var/cache/apt/archives/lintian_2.5.30+deb8u4_all.deb
* What was the outcome of this action?
W: lintian: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/lintian-info.1.gz line 5: TMPDIR: unbound variable
W: lintian: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/lintian.1.gz line 5: TMPDIR: unbound variable
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That the environmental variable "TMPDIR" retains its value.
##
There are two errors in "lintian", reported separately. The first
report is Debian #801482.
Here, the environmental variable TMPDIR has been unset by "lintian".
It has the value '/tmp'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt11-u3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.25-5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.22+15-2
ii gettext 0.19.3-2
ii hardening-includes 2.6
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.25
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii t1utils 1.38-4
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.25
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
pn libyaml-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
-- no debconf information
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Bjarni I. Gislason
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