Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.0.2-6.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch There has been some discussion[1][2][3] about security issues in .desktop files. There has bugreports both in Debian[4][5] and Mainstream[6].
A part of this solution would be to provide an unified script that would handle the .desktop files. Which would mean that .desktop files would be executables that had this script as shbang. Considering I'm very much interested in seeing this issue solved, I had took the time to actually implement that script, so I'm now proposing that to be a debian-specific patch until freedesktop.org people accept that there is an issue (they think the current state-of-affairs is ok). Honestly, I'm submitting this to the xdg-utils because I think it would be the natural place for such a script to be. But I'm seriously considering rolling over a new package if this doesn't get into this package. [1] http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229 [2] http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6236 [3] http://lwn.net/Articles/178409/ [4] http://bugs.debian.org/515104 [5] http://bugs.debian.org/515106 [6] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572203
xdg-launch
Description: Perl program
