[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1006826: guestfish: leaves production scrap in $TMPDIR

[Francesco Poli (wintermute)]

Package: guestfish
Version: 1:1.46.2-11+b1
Severity: normal

Hello!

First off, thanks for maintaining guestfish in Debian.

I noticed that using the command leaves "production scrap" in
my ${TMPDIR} .

For instance, if I set

  $ TMPDIR=/dev/shm
  $ export TMPDIR

and I use guestfish to create a virtual machine image,
I see that, after guestfish has successfully completed its task,
there's a lot of production scrap within /dev/shm :

$ du --si -s /dev/shm/.guestfs-1000/
755M    /dev/shm/.guestfs-1000/

More than 750 MB of production scrap!

I have to manually remove that directory, after guestfish
exits.

Why does guestfish do this?
I think it should automatically remove that directory...

Please investigate this bug and fix it and/or forward my
bug report upstream.

Thanks for your time.
Bye!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages guestfish depends on:
ii  libc6         2.33-7
ii  libconfig9    1.5-0.4
ii  libguestfs0   1:1.46.2-11+b1
ii  libreadline8  8.1.2-1
ii  libtinfo6     6.3-2
ii  libtirpc3     1.3.2-2
ii  libxml2       2.9.13+dfsg-1

guestfish recommends no packages.

guestfish suggests no packages.

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