Devuan bug report logs - #734
report of tcsh square-bracket globbing bug

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Package: tcsh; Maintainer for tcsh is (unknown); Source for tcsh is src:tcsh.

Reported by: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm.riches@jacob21819.net>

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 03:48:01 UTC

Severity: critical

Tags: debian

Found in version 6.21.00-1.1

Fixed in version 6.21.00-2

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/999754

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <rm.riches@jacob21819.net>, 734@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#734: report of tcsh square-bracket globbing bug
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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


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