Bug 661986

Summary:	sys-apps/less: lesspipe.sh rendering HTML
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dominik Schmidt <gentoobugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dominik Schmidt 2018-07-24 16:41:51 UTC

Recently, the lesspipe.sh script shipped inside /usr/portage  started rendering HTML automatically, if links or similar is installed.
I'd argue the point that this, whilst being a cool feature, is not the proper (default-)behaviour for a text pager, since it fundamentally alters what is contained in the file.
It also has security implications since it runs an HTML layout engine over potentially untrusted files.

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2018-08-03 20:52:40 UTC

please write the package name in the summary.
see http://www.portagefilelist.de
do you mean dev-embedded/scratchbox?