Bug#559852: xinit: --tmpdir is not supported by Lenny's mktemp
On 2010-06-05 15:49 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 07:34:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Quoting the Debian changelog:
>>
>> ,----
>> | xinit (1.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
>> |
>> | [ Julien Cristau ]
>> | * 06_move_serverauthfile_into_tmp.diff: use mktemp --tmpdir to honour
>> | $TMPDIR (closes: #480958).
>> `----
>>
>> The mktemp version in Lenny does not understand the --tmpdir option,
>> which will break startx in some interesting ways. You should either
>>
>> - depend on coreutils (>= 7.4-1) to ensure that the coreutils version of
>> mktemp is used, or
>>
>> - remove the --tmpdir switch, since the coreutils version of mktemp
>> honors TMPDIR by default (the Lenny version of mktemp will create the
>> file in /tmp, as before).
>
> Either of those is fine with me, can you fix it up in git?
Done, using the "depend on coreutils' mktemp" option. While I was at
it, I fixed a debian-rules-calls-debhelper-in-odd-order lintian warning
and updated xsfbs.
Cheers,
Sven
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