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Re: setup.py sdist permissions

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On Wed, 04 Apr 2018, Brian May wrote:

> Hello,

> As an upstream maintainer of certain packages on pypi, it has come to my
> attention that my packages have files in the source package with
> permission 600 or 700 (and my owner and group). This is most likely
> because my umask is set to 077, because in general I prefer not having
> all my private files world/group readable.

> * Is this actually a problem for users?

> * Shouldn't sdist be ignoring my umask considering it is generating
>   packages for public consumption?

> It seems like the only known solution is to manually set umask to 022
> before calling sdist, something I am likely to forgot to do on a
> continued basis.

> Any ideas?

just anecdotal support: my umask is 077 as well, have been doing uploads
to pypi for a while, never had report from the users about any problem.
The reasons could be either it indeed doesn't matter or nobody uses my
projects ;-)

Cheers,
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Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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setup.py sdist permissions Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2018-04-04 00:20 +0200
  Re: setup.py sdist permissions Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> - 2018-04-04 02:20 +0200
    Re: setup.py sdist permissions Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2018-04-04 10:10 +0200
  Re: setup.py sdist permissions Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-04-04 09:00 +0200

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