Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.8 > Severity: normal
> i've got a matlab 2006b debian package here that i debuild and lintian > fails like this, here's my /etc/fstab as well. i wasn't able to tell > lintian to use a different temporary directory (i tried setting TMP, > TEMP and reading the manual page, it could check available space and > abort before that or use/try /var/tmp): lintian certainly shouldn't try to check; that's error-prone, possibly unportable, and problematic. It also shouldn't try to use /var/tmp without explicit configuration since the semantics of /var/tmp are different and aren't the semantics that lintian wants. lintian follows the normal Unix convention of honoring TMPDIR as a location into which to put temporary files, but that wasn't documented anywhere that I could see. I've added explicit documentation to the man page. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
