On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 09:33 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> writes: > > On 25.07.22 08:46, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > > > > > obviously false. "No change" is always less surprising than any > > > change, > > > whatever the rationale is. > > > > It can also be unsurprising from an end-user's perspective. For > > someone new to the system. So that line of argument does not really > > hold. > > True. Good point. > > I was reading this as "unsuprising to the reader (system operator)", > but > I see that it could mean "unsusprising to the system users". Which > would make more sense. I apologize for the ambiguity; I did mean primarily for the end-user, who would likely a) assume their documents are private, and b) not expect any setgid weirdness. It is also unsurprising for users of other distributions, perhaps, which mostly use 0700. I take your point about any change being surprising.. but we wouldn't need a NEWS entry for that ;) > Is there a limit to the size of these entries which makes it hard to > be > more precise? None; this announcement was actually quite long. But the feedback is appreciated. Cheers, Matt
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