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, -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik