Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > I agree with you, but I don't think it's pam-afs-session where the bug is. > This is a bug that's been bothering me for a long time. I'm not sure if > aptitude or dpkg should be cleaning out the environment before invoking > maintainer scripts, maintainer scripts should be cleaning the environment > before running invoke-rc.d, or invoke-rc.d should be cleaning the > environment, but *something* in that path really should. In the past,
That's fair. I can make a decent case for dpkg, and will reassign this bug accordingly; please feel free to chime in post-reassignment if you feel you have anything to add. > I've seen debconf environment variables leaked into xinetd and then passed > along to subsequent user logins, which then breaks subsequent aptitude > runs. I haven't hit that failure mode, but I did historically run into trouble with my TEXMF setting causing TeX-related maintainer scripts to go overboard (though it looks like sudo does at least filter that out itself these days). -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
