Re: Call for testing: APT 1.5~alpha1/experimental

2017-06-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 06:04:58PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:38:31AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > APT 1.5~alpha1 landed in experimental today(ish). It includes three > > big changes (one of which, the new https support, is opt-in). > > 1.5~alpha2 fixes

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-30 Thread Christoph Biedl
Paul Wise wrote... > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > I'm not keen on extending regular expressions like > > > > \.(gz|bz2|lzma|xz)$ > > > > that I have in many places again and again. > > That sort of hard-coding should stop, Understandable and desirable, but p

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Maria Bisen writes: > Also, I think the issue here it's not just proponents of lzip "coming > here", but Debian people "going out", in what I reckon can be a conflict > of interest. This isn't what "conflict of interest" means. This is just an interest. There is no conflict. Currently, Debian

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-30 Thread Maria Bisen
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery wrote: > Debian has never expressed any opinion about lzip outside of our project > mailing lists. The only reason why it's even on our radar is that > proponents of lzip keep *coming here* and trying to push it on us. Some > of them are polite about it, and we've had poli

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread Michael Lustfield
I personally prefer a global 0027, but I've heard arguments for 0077. I also did a quick web search and found wiki pages meant to discuss the default. I imagine the most helpful course of action would be to read through the existing discussions and then contribute facts that haven't been shared...

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 30.06.2017 20:41, gwmf...@openmailbox.org wrote: > When the average user cannot change the umask Changing the umask is the wrong fix. The correct solution is to set the permissions of the home directory to 751, once. Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread Quick web search
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 02:41:22PM -0400, gwmf...@openmailbox.org wrote: > On 2017-06-30 12:05, Holger Levsen wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:56:37AM -0400, gwmf...@openmailbox.org > >wrote: > >>Ultimately, it wouldn't be as big a deal if it was possible to > >>change the > >>default umask for

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread gwmfms6
On 2017-06-30 12:05, Holger Levsen wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:56:37AM -0400, gwmf...@openmailbox.org wrote: Ultimately, it wouldn't be as big a deal if it was possible to change the default umask for the gnome-session in Debian Stretch. the fact that it's impossible for you, doesnt mea

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Maria Bisen writes: > After reading again Guillem Jover's answer it seems to me that the only > marketing campaign here is Debian against lzip. Even if you don't like > something, for whatever personal reasons, I don't think it's fine to > influence thousands of people, and Debian has the capacit

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:56:37AM -0400, gwmf...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Ultimately, it wouldn't be as big a deal if it was possible to change the > default umask for the gnome-session in Debian Stretch. the fact that it's impossible for you, doesnt mean it's impossible for everyone. sorry, but

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread gwmfms6
On 2017-06-30 09:17, Russell Stuart wrote: gwmf...@openmailbox.org is right in saying today's computer users don't have the "sharing is what makes us bigger than the sum of the parts" philosophy. Where he goes wrong is in assuming they share their computers. While there was a time many people s

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread gwmfms6
On 2017-06-30 00:18, darkestkhan wrote: Are you saying that default permissions for home dirs in Debian is 755? It was when I installed Jessie and most recently Stretch. sc...@sl.id.au wrote: Can you point to a real, specific security problem that this has caused? I already did, in my em

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread Russell Stuart
On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 21:22 +1000, Scott Leggett wrote: > If windows is different, it looks to be the outlier because macOS > behaves the same way as Debian[0]: > >   > For example, the default umask of 022 results in permissions of 644 >   > on new files and 755 on new folders. Groups and other u

Bug#866599: ITP: peframe -- tool to perform static analysis on PE malware

2017-06-30 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: peframe Version : 5.0.1 Upstream Author : Gianni Amato * URL : https://github.com/guelfoweb/peframe * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : tool to perform static a

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-30 Thread Maria Bisen
Hi, Sorry for the delay, but I think this needs a clarification. Ian Jackson wrote: > For Debian binary and source packages, there is no benefit in ECC > in the compression layer. > > I'm not sure why all of this isn't obvious. > > As an aside: I am sceptical of the value of ECC as part of a gen

Re: UMASK 002 or 022?

2017-06-30 Thread Scott Leggett
On 2017-06-29.15:43, gwmf...@openmailbox.org wrote: > The wider community doesn't seem that concerned with the fact that all > Debian and Ubuntu users are now (with the most recent stable releases) > completely unable to change their default umask (and further have a default > setting that gives th