On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 01:48 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > control: severity -1 wishlist > control: reassign -1 src:devscripts > control: retitle -1 debdiff: option to specify debdiff's temporary directory
Please CC receiving packages when you do that. I had to go and fetch an mbox from the BTS in order to be able to reply sensibly. > Alex Stammler wrote: > > on a regular run of ‘aptitude safe-upgrade’, APT List Changes filled the > > temporary > > filesystem to capacity and kept reporting over and over and over again (* > > literally > > thousands of times) the problem it itself had caused: > > apt-listdifferences just calls into debdiff, which doesn't currently > have an option to specify tempdir. debdiff uses File::Spec->tmpdir() and File::Temp, which will respect $TMPDIR if set, so apt-listdifferences could simply ensure that it sets that first. Does this really need an explicit option in debdiff rather than using the existing well-defined semantics for "please place your temporary files here"? Regards, Adam _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list devscripts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
