Re: setup.py sdist permissions
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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