>Also it'd be good to have the original author mentioned - surely Debian has 
>package change history available somewhere?

It is stored in [the form of the 
patch](https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-rpm-team/rpm/raw/master/debian/patches/tempfile.patch)
 in which it is written

>Description: Use the Debian standard (and safe) mechanism of generating 
>temporary files
>Author: Unknown

This metadata tags were added in 
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-rpm-team/rpm/commit/9bc82bea6dc2af7f07c7dd5044d8cbe0c4ab4a2e#591d515b5331531e8f14b02280b3cb48e2bb72d2
 by @nijel.

That file was introduced in 
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-rpm-team/rpm/commit/bb4e4de86405c3d1fb77c53a71c4fc84f6f83d48#7925069534c3fb9b5bf5c78b20291c070694a2da
 by @lool

then the description was added in 
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-rpm-team/rpm/commit/5c1b5e3a67e2170c9e0898a16ccf57a4f4f9bac8#4c9800bfef626d61e9bd3915cec97b4e42ad0224
 by `Anand Kumria` (`wildf...@progsoc.org`, `wildf...@progsoc.uts.edu.au`, I 
haven't found any recent activity on GH by him, there are plenty of Anands 
Kumria on GitHub). Should we attribute the patch to him?

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