[pkg-wine-party] Request for comment on a possible 0.10.0 release for gnome-exe-thumbnailer
James Lu
bitflip3 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 05:52:03 UTC 2017
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?
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 <bitflip3 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bitflip3 at 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
>
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