[debian-mysql] Bug#1023778: TMPDIR behaviour in maintainer scripts [was: Re: Bug#1023778: mysql-server-8.0: fails to restart on upgrade with libpam-tmpdir]

[Robie Basak]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 02:21:58AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 12, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at kekalainen.net> wrote:
> 
> > Instead of manually trying to manage TMPDIR env variable in various
> > places, we should have a standardized way to run maintainer scripts in
> > clean shell sessions that have all env variables set automatically
> > correctly.
> This is not about maintainer scripts, but about programs which change 
> the UID without sanitizing the environment.

No, it's absolutely about maintainer scripts, since that's the bug
reported, and the specific fix suggested implies that all relevant
maintainer scripts need changing.

You have generalised this, but I don't think it's at all clear that such
a broad generalisation is appropriate here.
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