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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770174
--- Comment #12 from Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com 2012-01-01 15:13:53 EST --- (In reply to comment #9)
No rpmlint is right to warn, it is not like you can do: /usr/share/applications/kde4/kde-partitionmanager.desktop And have it do something, like you can do ie: /bin/ls And have it do something, so the file should not be marked executable. If more kde4 packages are doing this then I say BAD kde4 ! :)
No, rpmlint is wrong to warn.
For security reasons, KDE requires .desktop files to have the executable bit set in most cases. This prevents e-mails from shipping a .desktop file as an attachment which runs some nasty command, possibly even a self-replicating worm.
Ah, interesting I did not know that live and learn. I stand corrected then :)