Hi Daniel, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > 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.
It's OK for me. But I wouldn't have time to maintain the script, so you'd have to co-maintain the package in that case. Feel free to add yourself to Uploaders and add the script to the package. The package is in a git repo in collab-maint, so you should already have commit rights. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
