Bug#273596: rubitex script uses hardcoded path for tempfiles

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>]

Hi Frank,

"fant" == Frank Küster writes:

 fant> Dear Werner, dear Vladimir, Thomas Esser and we, the Debian
 fant> teTeX package maintainers, have found that your rubibtex script
 fant> (part of the t2 package) uses a hardcoded path for temporary
 fant> files:

 fant> #!/bin/sh

 fant> TEMP=/tmp

 fant> Sometimes it is necessary that local administrators or users
 fant> set up a different directory for temporary files. This is
 fant> usually done by setting the variable TMPDIR to the location
 fant> where the files should be put, but this is made impossible with
 fant> rubibtex.

 fant> It would be great if you could change this. A simple, portable
 fant> solution would be to use parameter substitution to assign a
 fant> default value, as e.g. in teTeX's texconfig script:

 fant> TEMP=${TMPDIR-/tmp}

 fant> If you answer, please keep the bug number in the Cc.

Thanks, I've changed the rubibtex script as you suggested, and it
should propagate to CTAN tomorrow (if mirroring still works).

Best,
v.