I'm a bit confused by your comment; setting importance to "low" seems to imply that a fix will be in the next Gnome - which means Ubuntu 8.10. Or am I mistaken here? This bug is too important for that: network users should be able to rely on the correct rights for their new directories - you can't have an LTS release that applies the incorrect rights to new directories for 5 years.
Besides, the fix is trivial (see Gnome bugzilla): @@ -1974,7 +1981,7 @@ { GLocalFile *local = G_LOCAL_FILE (file); - if (g_mkdir (local->filename, 0755) == -1) + if (g_mkdir (local->filename, 0777) == -1) { int errsv = errno; This should be added to the /debian/patches dir (and I'm not sure how to get it there - is Debian bug tracking the right place? -- Nautilus and other gnome apps using incorrect umask for new directories https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242618 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs