Re: Including BSD mktemp into Debian.
[I forward this to the debian-policy list.]
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> There are talks on the vendor-security mailing list about making the BSD
> mktemp a standard part of Linux distributions (since it's so handy for
> writing secure shell scripts). So far RedHat, Caldera and Suse are going to
> include it in their distribution. I really think we should "go with the
> flow", since there's really no point in having two incompatible mktemp
> commands. (If you think this is a bad idea, please speak up *now*.)
>
> So... could someone please volunteer to package up the BSD mktemp
> (well... or to write a command-line compatible equivalent... but there's
> not much of a point since the source is more than free enough) and upload
> it to stable/unstable. It should be at least Important (if not
> Required). And since it's going to be called by all sorts of shell scripts
> (and probably weights around 4kB once stripped), it should go in /bin,
> IMHO. (If anyone cares, it's also the location RedHat has choosen, and I
> *think* OpenBSD also places it there.)
>
> IMHO, it should go into debianutils (since it's going to be rarely, if at
> all, upgraded)... but it could also go into its own package. As long as
> it's there, I don't really care personally.
I agree with everything you said.
Could someone investigate if all features of Guy's tempfile utility
(distributed via debianutils) are included in "mktemp"?
Thanks,
Chris
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