All former versions of trn used a hardcoded filename in /tmp as
temporary storage.  If the file already exists as symbolic link to
users files they will be overwritten.

We recommend you upgrade your man2html package as soon as possible.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
--------------------------------  Source archives:

          MD5 checksum: a1b2a19ea060c289e079444edf908a18
          MD5 checksum: 562b8ad926784d101646dc7148919015

  Alpha architecture:

          MD5 checksum: 919bbf1ae668786ec945d4fb042d0d27

  Intel ia32 architecture:

          MD5 checksum: b14c9ba3eeef6a33e574c55e022c47a4

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

          MD5 checksum: 3ad7ab653b333cfc4fb4409c7fe1e192

  Sun Sparc architecture:

          MD5 checksum: 97cebe97d78372706c225309898a2e7d


Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias potato
--------------------------------------  Source archives:

    -9.4.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 46a3f905fecec6e9079ccb6e6c0d27dd
          MD5 checksum: e23192e418c3299f0bee0c5ef0f182e8
    .
tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: b42f4226072442265fbbda865ca4b796

  Alpha architecture:

          MD5 checksum: bdcad9ead736edd1082bd203a26a3233

  ARM architecture:

          MD5 checksum: f8c918679d759b3ec22a017eb58fc3b4

  Intel ia32 architecture:

          MD5 checksum: d2a73698ac259196876a71fd6f45b714

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

          MD5 checksum: 0eb1b01ce9d3a92c2072ba8a6e7c81fa

  PowerPC architecture:

          MD5 checksum: 60ddaabdecb48ae2062d5d88ee608c42

  Sun Sparc architecture:

          MD5 checksum: a1525fc83d73502be41411e02ba8ec3f


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New versions of trn fixes /tmp race

December 13, 1999

All former versions of trn used a hardcoded filename in /tmp as temporary storage

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