OoO En  cette soirée bien amorcée  du vendredi 30 mai  2008, vers 22:42,
"William Vera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:

>>> In fact, is not a bug, because vfu say 'support' for list and read,
>>> does not depend on them (unzip, bzip2, etc) for build o run the
>>> program.
>> 
>> Well, without unzip,  vfu is unable to read a zip  file. Without tar and
>> gzip, it is not  able to read a tar.gz. If you  look at wrappers in rx/,
>> you see that they use tar, unzip, etc.

> should include them in control then?

Yes. As Depends or as Recommends.

>> Moreover, those  wrappers are some security issue.  They use predictable
>> name in  a world writable directory  (/tmp/XXXXXX.rx.cache). They should
>> use mktemp based filename instead.

> Suggests a patch for this case?

You should  discuss this issue  with upstream. The cache  should survive
accross invocations  so you cannot  just use mktemp. vfu  should provide
those wrappers a unique directory to store this cache.
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