[Python-modules-team] Bug#821886: proselint: clear_cache() function clears the current directory instead of the cache directory

[Víctor Cuadrado Juan]

Sorry for letting this issue idle so much, real life happened (change
of job and country).


On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:35:43 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> When I run `proselint --debug` from my home directory it searches my
> whole home directory for *.pyc files and deletes them. While *.pyc
> files are usually Python bytecode that might not be true for every user
> and even if they were, that doesn't mean the user doesn't want to keep
> them. Either way it is completely unacceptable to delete stuff from the
> user's home directory just because they want to debug proselint.

This is indeed a problem, didn't catch it before.

I have patched it at the Debian side (since it doesn't make sense to
have it), and opened an issue upstream to discuss it [1].


> Also, what happened to removing use of shell=True?

That is fixed on upstream's master, waiting to be released yet [2].
Sadly I don't have much time to test and release a git snapshot, so I
have opened a blocker bug [3] and I will await for a new upstream
release.

[1]: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/issues/490
[2]: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/issues/395
[3]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827445

Cheers,

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