[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#733508: Unsets LD_LIBRARY_PATH from child processes

[Uli Schlachter]

Package: rxvt-unicode-256color
Version: 9.19-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

I got git builds of various libraries laying around (xcb, Xlib, cairo, ...) and
want all my program to use these versions of the libraries so that I notice new
problems early. To do this, I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in ~/.xsession which is
inherited by all processes in the X session.

However, urxvt not unsets LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To test this I ran this command and
checked for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in its output:

   env -i sh -c 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=foo urxvt -hold -e /usr/bin/env'

This happens because the urxvt binary is g+s, thanks to bug #500230. If I remove
the setgid bit, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is passed on to the shell that urxvt starts.

I know that this is not really urxvt's fault, but I have this problem due to a
change in urxvt. It would be nice if urxvt used my local Xlib and xcb builds,
but more importantly everything else should do so.

Cheers,
Uli

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode-256color depends on:
ii  base-passwd               3.5.28
ii  libc6                     2.17-97
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.1-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.8.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.38.0-1
ii  libperl5.18               5.18.1-5
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxft2                   2.3.1-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1
ii  ncurses-term              5.9+20130608-1

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode-256color recommends:
pn  fonts-vlgothic | fonts-japanese-gothic  <none>
ii  ttf-dejavu                              2.33+svn2514-3

rxvt-unicode-256color suggests no packages.

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