Topic 6: Secure maintainer scripts
STATE: APPROVAL
The following policy change has been proposed. It will become official
unless someone objects now:
Any scripts which create files in world-writable directories (i.e.
in /tmp) have to use a mechanism which will fail if a file with
the same name already exists.
The Debian base distribution provides the `tempfile' utility for
use by scripts for this purpose.
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