From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name>,
"Léo Le Bouter" <lle-bout@zaclys.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:05:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dlxjwri.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFopKL1qeVhA7iQI@jasmine.lan>
Hi Leo,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 03:38:02PM +0100, Léo Le Bouter wrote:
>> For this, the problem is not grafting but that the replacement package
>> definition has been made public, this is an "issue" (?) that is known
>> and I try to not make replacement package definitions public now.
>
> The replacement should be public in this case. We want people to get the
> updated ImageMagick when they do `guix install imagemagick`.
That should happen anyway, even without making the replacement package
public. I certainly *hope* that's what happens. If not, that's a
serious security flaw in Guix.
Also, I'm not sure why you qualify your suggestion with "in this case".
What is it that distinguishes ImageMagick from, e.g. glib, for purposes
of this question? Would it be any less bad for "guix install glib" to
install a glib with security flaws?
It would be good to reach agreement on whether replacement packages
should be made public. I haven't thought much about it, so I don't know
what the relevant issues are.
Regards,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-19 9:40 imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2 Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-19 11:12 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-21 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-22 10:53 ` zimoun
2021-03-22 16:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-22 10:29 ` Andreas Enge
2021-03-22 21:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-23 13:34 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-23 17:42 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 14:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-23 23:32 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-23 14:22 ` Andreas Enge
2021-03-23 14:38 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-23 17:45 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 23:05 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-03-24 4:12 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 23:42 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-24 10:15 ` zimoun
2021-03-27 15:48 ` Andreas Enge
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