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Bug#650762: marked as done (lintian: Please support an UNPACKDIR option)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #650762,
regarding lintian: Please support an UNPACKDIR option
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
In Wheezy it seems like the default setup is that /tmp resides on tmpfs, and in
the case of 4GB ram is limited to around 700MB, this means that for some
packages, in my case one containing large game data, it will exceed /tmp when
unpacked.

It would be very nice if lintian supported an UNPACKDIR option in lintianrc,
instead of having to rely on exporting TMPDIR in the shell, in order to change
the directory lintian unpacks to, and avoid running out of space.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.21.90.20111025-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.5-7           
ii  diffstat                       1.54-1            
ii  file                           5.09-2            
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-5        
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1 
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.25+b1         
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1            
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2         
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.1.2          
ii  libemail-valid-perl            0.185-1           
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.90-1            
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1           
ii  libtimedate-perl               1.2000-1          
ii  liburi-perl                    1.59-1            
ii  locales                        2.13-21           
ii  man-db                         2.6.0.2-3         
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1           
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-5          
ii  unzip                          6.0-5             

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     <none>               
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.1.2             
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-1+b1            
ii  libtext-template-perl  <none>               
ii  man-db                 2.6.0.2-3            
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hi,

> It would be very nice if lintian supported an UNPACKDIR option in lintianrc,
> instead of having to rely on exporting TMPDIR in the shell, in order to change
> the directory lintian unpacks to, and avoid running out of space.

Lintian nowadays keeps most information, such as file indices, in
memory. Persistent labs have been gone for years. The unpacked
information that remains does not differ notably, if at all, from
extracted packages.

To avoid running out of space, Lintian's configuration file will
accept a TMPDIR option (which is like the UNPACKDIR that was
requested), but it will be removed in a future release. A good
alternative available in many shells is probably 'alias lintian env
TMPDIR=/more/space lintian'.

Closing this bug. Thank you for using Lintian!

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

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