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 xbps-0.48 (???):
 
+ * lixbps: use a sane umask if the pkgdb file needs to created for the first
+   time. Thanks to Wolfgang Draxinger (https://github.com/voidlinux/xbps/pull/108).
+
  * xbps-install(1): -n/--dry-run mode now also prints "installed_size" and
    "filename-size" objects as 5th and 6th argument, respectively.
    This implements #109 (https://github.com/voidlinux/xbps/issues/109).