On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, C de-Avillez wrote: >> Here I go having spelled the problem character by character to make > the real problem clear. > > You might want to consider doing that on your next bugs as well -- both > spelling the problem character by character, and giving the bug a nice > title. We would not have lost that much time if you had done so from the > beginning.
Thanks, very cool! >> So the logical next step would seem to be to flag the real problem as such >> (Wishlist) >> in order for it to be fixed. However users can't do that in Ubuntu. Would >> you mind >> fixing this problem that exists for real? > > Not at all, considering the suffix problem that indeed exists (and not a > prefix problem that did not). Set to triaged/Medium. Frankly, I do not > see it as WishList, if the suffix functionality was available on the > previous incarnation of 'mktemp'. Unfortunately I rechecked (I installed the old mktemp tool from Debian) and it wasn *not* able to create files with suffixes either. Even worse, it would create the file "XXXXXX.bla" as such without replacing the 'X'es without complaining. > The fix should be available for Maverick when we sync coreutils from > Debian. If you need it in a previous version, please nominate > accordingly, and *give a strong reason of why it is needed*. This fix > will, then, be considered for a SRU (Stable Release Update). Considering the above I think releasing Maverick synched to Debian's coreutils is fine. Thanks again, *t -- mktemp can't create a file with a suffix/file extension https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
