Hi, On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:46:21PM +0200, Beatrice Torracca wrote: > Source: debian-reference > Version: 2.68 > Severity: normal > > Hi! > > Currently the "make distclean" command deletes the users' tempdir if > it was already set as the environment variable "TMPDIR". In my case it > is ~/.tmp.
I see. In my case, it is unset and let Makefile set it to $(CURDIR)/tmp > Not only all the files in the directory are deleted, but also the > directory itself. > > I think the directory should not be erased, and not even the files in > it, aside those created by the debian-reference package. > > For a better explanation see this thread in the Debian Documentation > Project Mailing-list > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2017/09/msg00014.html I see this is safer. > And particularly the reply by user atzlinux that > contains a proposed patch for the problem. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2017/09/msg00016.html Good. Why not commit? (I did a bit more and committed) If you see problem, let me know. Osamu
