Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770174 --- Comment #12 from Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> 2012-01-01 15:13:53 EST --- (In reply to comment #9) > > No rpmlint is right to warn, it is not like you can do: > > /usr/share/applications/kde4/kde-partitionmanager.desktop > > And have it do something, like you can do ie: > > /bin/ls > > And have it do something, so the file should not be marked executable. If more > > kde4 packages are doing this then I say BAD kde4 ! :) > > No, rpmlint is wrong to warn. > > For security reasons, KDE requires .desktop files to have the executable bit > set in most cases. This prevents e-mails from shipping a .desktop file as an > attachment which runs some nasty command, possibly even a self-replicating > worm. Ah, interesting I did not know that live and learn. I stand corrected then :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review