Package: marble
Version: 4:16.04.1-3
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
marble has for ages disabled symlinks traversal in a great part of
the local cache code. I know for certain that developers have decided to
do so to avoid user reports related to dangling symlinks (sorry, I can't
find a reference now). This bug report is to see if the Debian
maintainers agree this is wrong. Attached you'll find a patch that
removes all the references to QDir::NoSymLinks from the code. I tested it
and it works fine now. I will keep having this patch around, but I hope
you find it useful too, so everyone else can profit from it, and I don't
have to recompile marble from time to time :)
Cheers,
-- Marcos.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages marble depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-3
ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-6
ii libkf5configcore5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5configgui5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.26.0-3
ii libkf5i18n5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5newstuff5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5parts5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5runner5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.26.0-1
ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.26.0-1
ii libmarblewidget-qt5-24 4:16.04.1-3
ii libqt5core5a 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5dbus5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5gui5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5network5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5widgets5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5xml5 5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-6
ii marble-data 4:16.04.1-3
ii marble-plugins 4:16.04.1-3
marble recommends no packages.
Versions of packages marble suggests:
pn gosmore <none>
pn monav-routing-daemon <none>
pn routino <none>
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our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to
make us fearful.
-- Bruce Schneier
