Subject: Re: bug#38422: .png files in /gnu/store with executable permissions (555)

From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 08:45:09 +0100

Le 30 novembre 2019 05:08:55 GMT+01:00, Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> a écrit :
>Hi Bengt,
>
>Bengt Richter <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On +2019-11-29 07:20:41 -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>> The proper solution is to send bug reports to the upstream
>developers of
>>> docbook-xsl, faba-icon-theme, and moka-icon-theme, asking them to
>fix
>>> the permissions of the *.png files in their source tarballs.
>>>
>> That I haven't done. Is there a standard way to do it?
>
>No.
>
>> "guix show moka-icon-theme" tells me homepage, but it would be nice
>> to have a guix show --verbose that would show bug reporting info :)
>
>It would be nice, but it would also be an enormous amount of work.
>First we'd need to devise a way to represent that information, and then
>we'd need to add it to each of our 10K+ packages.  It would also be an
>additional job to do when adding new packages.  I'm not sure it's worth
>all that work.  We already record the home page, and from there it's
>usually not much work to find how to report bugs.  In cases where it
>_is_ difficult to find out how to report bugs, that's arguably a
>problem
>that should be fixed upstream.
>
>What do you think?
>
>      Regards,
>        Mark

Also, we should not encourage people to report bugs upstream directly. We have to evaluate whether the bug is on our side or theirs first to not drown them in useless bug reports :)