On 08/09/2017 12:52 AM, James Lu wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Not a bad idea at all, and thanks for the feedback! I think > exe-thumbnailer alone would work as a name since it isn't DE-specific, > and IIRC this is also the name Wine docs use to refer to the project. > What do you think?
I'm not aware of any documentation like that upstream (but it wouldn't surprise me). Regardless, it's a minor thing for us, just as long as there's a smooth transition / both are supported for a while (e.g., a fallback symlink). > The only caveat is that renaming a package in Debian means it needs to > go through NEW, so it might take a while for the update to be processed. > (We still have plenty of time though) > > Best, > James > > On 08/08/17 09:20 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: >> I suggest changing the name, at least one article on the bad taste >> vulnerability misattributed the fault to Gnome developers. I defer on >> the actual decision though :) >> >> I really do appreciate both your work on all this, as well as the rapid >> response to the problem :) >> >> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:08 AM James Lu <bitfl...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bitfl...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Scott and Jan, >> >> In case you haven't heard, I recently tagged+released >> gnome-exe-thumbnailer 0.9.5[1] in order to fix CVE-2017-11421[2]. Since >> then, I've committed several other code updates to the master branch, >> which I eventually plan to release as 0.10.x. The full diff so far is >> here: >> >> https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/compare/0.9.5...master >> >> I won't go and mention every change in the mail because I hope my commit >> messages are straightforward enough. However, some of the more major >> changes are: >> >> 1) Switching to $XDG_CACHE_HOME for thumbnails, per >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/+bug/1105796. >> I didn't include any migration code away from the old path because I >> believe that the thumbnails can just be regenerated at the new path (but >> correct me if I'm wrong here!). >> >> 2) Minor security fix: replace insecure /tmp usage (suffixed files) with >> a temporary directory, per >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868737. >> >> 3) Supporting icon theme fetching on MATE, Xfce, and Cinnamon - the file >> managers used in these DEs all support desktop thumbnailers now, so >> gnome-exe-thumbnailer isn't exactly gnome-specific anymore. >> >> 4) Replacing .lnk parsing with liblnk's lnkinfo, and adding support for >> relative paths. One of my eventual goals is to replace g-e-t's >> dependency on wine entirely (this removes half of the calls), as it is >> large and not always the fastest solution.[3] >> - However, .lnk thumbnailing is still quite broken, because many >> Windows shortcuts (especially ones that link to a different partition) >> use absolute paths. These links are broken 90% of the time because the >> partition mapping in ~/.wine/dosdevices/ rarely ends up matching a >> Windows configuration without prior configuration. Unfortunately, I >> don't see a great alternative here[4]. >> >> 5) Fixing numerous shellcheck warnings by cleaning up the code. >> >> 6) Merging in a new Moka template from Alfredo Hernández: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/+bug/1404744 >> >> As always, comments and feedback are very much appreciated! >> >> Best, >> James >> >> [1]: >> >> https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/compare/0.9.4...0.9.5 >> [2]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11421 >> [3]: >> https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/issues/7 >> [4]: >> https://github.com/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/gnome-exe-thumbnailer/issues/6 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-wine-party mailing list > pkg-wine-party@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wine-party > -- -Austin GPG: 14FB D7EA A041 937B
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