coreutils-8.21-alt1 I met several scripts which want "tempfile". Perhaps, a convenience compatibility wrapper around "mktemp" could be provided to make using such scripts easy. For example, /usr/bin/cpif from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/noweb/noweb_2.11b-8_i386.deb or http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/nowebm-2.11a-2.i386.rpm from http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ : new=$(tempfile) trap 'rm -f $new; exit 1' 1 2 15 # clean up files .... Probably, "tempfile" is a Debian convention.
According to https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/debianutils/tempfile.1.en.html tempfile has already been deprecated in Debian at the time when this request was submitted. I don't think we really need this deprecated utility.
