ESC meeting minutes: 2020-05-21

[Michael Stahl]

On 23.05.20 12:32, Eivind Samseth wrote:
> I also loaded up my Catalina SSD and tested the notarisation on bug 
> 126409, we still miss on notarisation requirements as far as I can tell 
> when I compare to Firefox (as this is not something I know much about).
> 
> More detail in the bug, but e.g., :
> 
> codesign --test-requirement="=notarized" --verify --verbose LibreOffice.app/
> 
> LibreOffice.app/: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/__pycache__/unohelper.cpython-37.pyc
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/__pycache__/uno.cpython-37.pyc
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/__pycache__/pythonloader.cpython-37.pyc
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/dict-en/pythonpath/__pycache__/lightproof_impl_en.cpython-37.pyc
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/dict-en/pythonpath/__pycache__/lightproof_opts_en.cpython-37.pyc
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/dict-en/pythonpath/__pycache__/lightproof_en.cpython-37.pyc
> 
> file added: 
> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/dict-en/pythonpath/__pycache__/lightproof_handler_en.cpython-37.pyc

it's possible that this is a new problem in LO 6.4 due to the upgrade to 
CPython 3.7, although i can't do anything without a Mac.

there's apparently some options to disable the .pyc cache files:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/154443/how-to-avoid-pyc-files