Control: severity -1 serious On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 22:08:05 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > It seems a few files contains the full path of 'mktemp' found via > AC_PROG_PATH during build. > > Since PATH defaults to contain /usr/bin before /bin the found path will > be /usr/bin/mktemp on a usrmerged system, since both paths are > essentially the same thing there. This is however not desirable on > a non-merged system where it needs to be /bin/mktemp.
This will become a practical problem as soon as Debian starts using merged-/usr buildds. The problem scenario is: - enca is built on a merged-/usr buildd - /usr/bin/mktemp is recorded in the binary package - this build of enca is installed on a non-merged-/usr system during the upgrade from Debian 11 to Debian 12 - whatever feature uses mktemp wil fail, because non-merged-/usr systems only have /bin/mktemp Technical Committee resolution https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994388#110 recommends that this class of bug is treated as release-critical, so I'm raising the severity of this bug report. Please upload a fixed package before the Debian 12 freeze. The patch that Andreas provided in 2018 looks likely to be an appropriate solution, although I have not tested it. Thanks, smcv
