Private home directories for hirsute onwards

2020-11-25 Thread Alex Murray
Hi folks, After more than 14 years[1] of debate, I propose that it is time we moved ahead and stopped creating home directories as world-readable on Ubuntu for hirsute onwards. The old arguments from the bug referenced in [1] mainly centered on the convenience of this feature when considered in re

Re: Should one be able to install with only release + -security enabled?

2020-11-25 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Nish! On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 08:57:55AM -0600, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > However, I am finding a few package updates (in Bionic in my case, > but I think Focal may also have this problem) that only have fixes in the > -updates pocket. This prevents installation from succeeding with pre

Should one be able to install with only release + -security enabled?

2020-11-25 Thread Nish Aravamudan
Hi! I have been testing a network-isolated Ubuntu mirror inside our network and I am trying to understand if what I envision should work or not. In particular, I am trying to minimize how much review is needed for package updates, so I would like to just include the release and security pockets.