[Bug 1915568] Re: lessfile is broken when using ~/.lessfilter

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This bug was fixed in the package less - 590-1

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less (590-1) sid; urgency=low

  [ Milan Kupcevic ]
  * new upstream release (closes: #983599, #995984)
    - avoid spurious empty lines (closes: #763631)
    - remove erroneous free() (closes: #990035)
  * debian/lesspipe.1: list zstd related file types
  * debian/lesspipe: redo lessfilter handling
    (closes: #788438, #992354)(lp: #1915568)
  * debian/lesspipe: safeguard from possible improper delete
    (closes: #1002301)
  * refresh quilt patches
  * update copyright notice
  * set standards version to 4.6.0

  [ Adam Borowski ]
  * lesspipe: support zstd-compressed files (closes: #964930)

 -- Milan Kupcevic <milan at debian.org>  Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:54:19 -0500

** Changed in: less (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  lessfile is broken when using ~/.lessfilter

Status in less package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If ~/.lessfilter exists and is used by lesspipe/lessfile, then
  lessfile will make the filename of the temporary file visible in less.
  The attached patch fixes this. (The filename is echoed to less after
  the subshell exits; trying to do it inside the subshell means it ends
  up looking to less like part of the file being viewed.)

  To test this, you can place the following file at ~/.lessfilter:

  #!/bin/sh
  echo foo
  exit 0

  Then opening any file in less (assuming you have lessfile set up)
  should show "foo". The bug is that, currently, it also shows a
  filename from somewhere in /tmp.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: less 487-0.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-135.139-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-135-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity7
  Date: Fri Feb 12 21:25:34 2021
  Dependencies:
   debianutils 4.8.4
   gcc-8-base 8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04
   libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1.4
   libgcc1 1:8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04
   libtinfo5 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-13 (914 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  SourcePackage: less
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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