Bug#883746: chromium: secretly stores referer and url for downloaded files

I've been asked where wget stores the URL. Same place as Chromium, in the extended attributes. Here is my blog entry recounting my small investigation: https://green-possum-today.blogspot.com/2018/09/chromechromium-is-storing-url-and.html

Bug#883746: chromium: secretly stores referer and url for downloaded files

This is tangentially related but I found that GNU wget (1.19.5 on my system) also stores this information, and there is no way to turn it off; it's not mentioned in the documentation. I wonder what the FSF's take is on this.

Bug#794541: bash: /etc/skel/.bashrc handles appending of /usr/sbin and /sbin to $PATH incorrectly

Package: bash Version: 4.3-11+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, While examining why ~/.bashrc didn't append /usr/sbin:/sbin to $PATH as advertised at the bottom of the file I found that it had a logic error. It reads: [ -z ${PATH##*/sbin*} ] PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin If $PATH doesn't