Bug#288616: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#288616: use of ">" in tetex postinst errors for sites using bash noclobber)

["George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 01:48:13PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>#288616: use of ">" in tetex postinst errors for sites using bash noclobber,
>which was filed against the tetex-base package.
>
>[...]
>> Frank K=FCster asked you some questions half a year ago, but you never
>> reacted. Do still intend to help us to track down the problem?=20=20
>
>Again no reaction for a couple of weeks.  There is no bug in tetex-bin,
>and I guess nowhere at all.

Sorry I didn't notice any inquiry since my last followup.

I suppose not, no bugs. The method of generating temp files is
not as I would choose.  I tend to prefer to set no clobber in my
environment as people often alias -i with rm, but the problem
I experienced probably wouldn't have happened on a white box
test. My system had BASH_ENV set which is bound to cause problems
in any 'distribution' and was not intentional by my part -- the
shell loaded a user environment, which caused the script to fail
due to its dependency on being able to clobber files. Unless that
becomes a default option in debian bash, I see no bug.

// George


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