9fbc8a44-circle-of-friends-web.zip contains __MACOSX and .DS_Store directories

[paride]

The "circle of friends" logo set zip file available from here:

https://design.ubuntu.com/downloads/
currently: https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/8c03536d-canonical-logo-set-print.zip

contains the __MACOSX and .DS_Store directories. It should not. I didn't check the other zip files, but if they were created following the same process it's likely they contain them too.

[nottrobin]

Hi @paride. Thanks for pointing this out.

I assume your objection to these files being there is that it shows that the images were created using a Mac. This is accurate, unfortunately, and I don't think we make a particular secret of it.

I agree it would be ideal for those files not to be there, just for neatness. However, those zips were created a long time ago and we haven't updated them for a long time.

We can't prioritise fixing this right now, but I'll leave this open for us to get to at some point. We're probably going to revisit the whole of design.ubuntu.com before too long and at that point those assets will probably be replaced.

[paride]

Thanks @nottrobin for your reply. The point of my report wasn't to hide the tech used to create the logos, even if I admit I'd be happy to know they have been created using Ubuntu and Inkscape :) The main reason for the bug is that those files are annoying and out of place in an OS-independent package. Especially annoying is the fact that even if the zip nicely expands in a circle-of-friends-web/ directory, the __MACOSX directory is out of it, polluting the base directory where the archive is expanded.

I understand this is not a priority, but I hope you'll be able to get around to it at some point.

Cheers!