Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(+cc: previous participants) The Anarcat wrote: I understand that, but how does that keep us from issuing [an] update on security.debian.org? [...] People running stable are not necessarily running volatile and s-p-u. Ah, I missed your point before. Keeping git broken in lenny is indeed a

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-21 Thread The Anarcat
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:16:39AM +0300, Jonathan Nieder wrote: (+cc: previous participants) The Anarcat wrote: I understand that, but how does that keep us from issuing [an] update on security.debian.org? [...] People running stable are not necessarily running volatile and s-p-u.

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-21 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * The Anarcat anar...@koumbit.org [2010-09-22 00:32]: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:16:39AM +0300, Jonathan Nieder wrote: [...] * would set a weird precedent for errata that did not come about in fixing a security-related bug The regression was introduce by fixing a security-related

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Philipp Kern wrote on Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:43:09 +0200: I scheduled a binNMU. A quick fix is to upgrade to the version in proposed-updates when it's available there latest tomorrow evening. The binNMU is on the mirrors in proposed-updates for a few days now and it works as expected. Will

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:48:37PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Philipp Kern wrote on Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:43:09 +0200: I scheduled a binNMU. A quick fix is to upgrade to the version in proposed-updates when it's available there latest tomorrow evening. The binNMU is on the mirrors in

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 15:48:37 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Will it come to stable only with the next minor release in a few months or will there be an earlier propagation to stable? stable doesn't change outside of point releases (that would break Release.gpg, for one thing). Cheers, Julien

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-08 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Thanks for the analysis. Do you think it would be worth cherry-picking the fix from v1.6.0.3~81^2 (Fix permission bits on sources checked out with an overtight umask, 2008-08-21[1]) to lenny to prevent this from happening

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-07 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:55:32PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: Thanks for the bug report. Indeed the git-core package is broken on lenny/i386 since the last point release on Saturday. Sadly nobody caught that bug when the package was in proposed-updates. It's

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-07 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org [2010-09-07 11:25]: On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 12:56:05AM -0500, Adam Mercer wrote: [...] Thanks for the bug report. Indeed the git-core package is broken on lenny/i386 since the last point release on Saturday. Sadly nobody caught that bug when the package

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Nico Golde wrote: I'm wondering what this was. I'm building in a clean chroot and to be honest I have no idea what went wrong. The umask in this chroot is 022. Hmm, odd. Do you unpack from within the chroot or are the sources unpacked in advance? You can find a package designed to avoid

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-07 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com [2010-09-07 13:12]: Nico Golde wrote: I'm wondering what this was. I'm building in a clean chroot and to be honest I have no idea what went wrong. The umask in this chroot is 022. Hmm, odd. Do you unpack from within the chroot or are the

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-06 Thread Adam Mercer
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny3.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Since the last update of git-core the templates in /usr/share/git-core are marked with permissions -rw-r- (owned by root:root), so general users can't access them. Therefore when a new

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-06 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 12:56:05AM -0500, Adam Mercer wrote: Since the last update of git-core the templates in /usr/share/git-core are marked with permissions -rw-r- (owned by root:root), so general users can't access them. Therefore when a new repository is cloned the process failed as

Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

2010-09-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Philipp, Philipp Kern wrote: Thanks for the bug report. Indeed the git-core package is broken on lenny/i386 since the last point release on Saturday. Sadly nobody caught that bug when the package was in proposed-updates. It's only i386, that's affected, because of oddities on the