[Pkg-clamav-devel] Lintian override (Was: Re: repo set up)

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Wed Sep 17 08:59:03 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:12:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said:
> > After reading the above pieces of code I wonder what the added value of setting
> > TemporaryDirectory to /tmp is at all? Apparently, that would be the default
> > anyway? 
> 
> There really isn't any, except ease of making ucf do sensible things.
> At some point, I made the decision to have all possible config file
> entries handled by the maintainer scripts - in for a penny, in for a
> pound, and all that.  So the scripts currently set quite a lot to their
> default values, and could just as well be left out.

I finally got around fixing this. I removed setting of TemporaryDirectory and
replaced it with a comment. There appears to be another prolem when using this,
namely that it disables overriding the temporary directory with some
environment variable.

Michael
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