Package: lintian Version: 2.5.31 Severity: wishlist In #785254, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:53:22PM +0200, Daniel Stender wrote:+ * add fix-insecure-use-of-tmp-when-calling-c44.diff, fix + of security issue TEMP-0784889-495CCA, see #784888 (closed + in Sid by 0.4-1).Do not use these temporary items since they can change over time (e.g. when a CVE is assigned they do not exist anymore, or even if we change some metadata in the security-tracker. So I suggest to just write an expalanation what the issue is, or -- if a CVE is assigned -- include the CVE id.
DCS finds a few cases where such a temporary identifier was used in a changelog:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=\bTEMP-[0-9]%2B-[0-9A-F]%2B\b+path%3Achangelog It would be nice if Lintian could catch such mistakes. -- Jakub Wilk