Subject: Re: bug#734: report of tcsh square-bracket globbing bug

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 16:17:31 +0000

Control: tags -1 debian
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.debian.org/999754
Control: fixed -1 tcsh/6.21.00-2

Robert,

Many thanks for this.

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 07:45:54PM -0800, Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
> Package: tcsh
> Version: 6.21.00-1.1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
> Subject: tcsh: globbing false positives: [a-d]? and [a-d]* can delete unintended files like 21, 22, 23, etc.

tsch is not a forked package and Devuan uses Debian's packages directly without
recompilation. Fortunately this issue appears to have been reported to Debian's
BTS[1] and is fixed in version 6.21.00-2.

Mark

[1]  https://bugs.debian.org/999754