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[Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, C de-Avillez wrote:

>> Here I go having spelled the problem character by character to make
> the real problem clear.
>
> You might want to consider doing that on your next bugs as well -- both
> spelling the problem character by character, and giving the bug a nice
> title. We would not have lost that much time if you had done so from the
> beginning.

Thanks, very cool!

>> So the logical next step would seem to be to flag the real problem as such (Wishlist)
>> in order for it to be fixed. However users can't do that in Ubuntu. Would you mind
>> fixing this problem that exists for real?
>
> Not at all, considering the suffix problem that indeed exists (and not a
> prefix problem that did not). Set to triaged/Medium. Frankly, I do not
> see it as WishList, if the suffix functionality was available on the
> previous incarnation of 'mktemp'.

Unfortunately I rechecked (I installed the old mktemp tool from Debian)
and it wasn *not* able to create files with suffixes either.

Even worse, it would create the file "XXXXXX.bla" as such without
replacing the 'X'es without complaining.

> The fix should be available for Maverick when we sync coreutils from
> Debian. If you need it in a previous version, please nominate
> accordingly, and *give a strong reason of why it is needed*. This fix
> will, then, be considered for a SRU (Stable Release Update).

Considering the above I think releasing Maverick synched to Debian's
coreutils is fine.

Thanks again,
*t

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mktemp can't create a file with a suffix/file extension
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589408
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