Re: Bug#286392: autopoint: Insecure temporary directory usage

[Santiago Vila]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:

> [ snipped lots of explanations ]
>
> Now, the change is really simple to introduce, it has no caveats, improves 
> security for some cases and I really see no point in _not_ introducing it. 

Well, yes, you might have a point here.

> What do you fear, feature-bloat?

More or less. Deviating from upstream for things which upstream might
not consider as a bug. Currently, each and every of the patches
included in the Debian diff will surely be part of the next gettext
release, and that's always a desirable thing for a package.

Or maybe it's just that changing the umask seems ugly to me.


Anyway, I hope that the author will look at this and will come with a
solution which is both portable and elegant, as he usually does :-)


Ok, I'm going to leave this open until I hear from him.