From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Staying on top of Qt security Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:27:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20160221192719.GA11173@jasmine> References: <20160214200143.GA19744@jasmine> <20160218204349.GA4179@solar> <87egc9pr2p.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160218225938.GA29487@solar> <8760xjw81o.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160221072837.GA16855@jasmine> <87ziuuarix.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXZfD-0005o6-VN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:27:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXZfA-0004FC-Pq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:27:27 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:54969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXZfA-0004F8-M6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:27:24 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ziuuarix.fsf@dustycloud.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 09:42:43AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:27:52AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > >> Andreas Enge writes: > >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 02:53:40PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > >> >> I'm assuming this was directed at me (though I don't work on Pumpa, but > >> >> I could ask the author things... I do *use* it every day though). What > >> >> am I being asked here... I'm not sure? Whether Pumpa could be updated > >> >> to QT 5? > >> > > >> > I think so :-) > >> > > >> > The alternative question would have been whether we could remove it, > >> > but I already knew the answer... > >> > > >> > Andreas > >> > >> From Sazius: > >> > >> Hi! Pumpa already works with Qt 5, I'm running it on Qt 5.3.2 in Debian > >> jessie myself. If you have any problems (e.g. with a newer version of > >> Qt) I would consider it a bug and try to fix it :-) > >> > >> So it looks like we just need to update the pacakge? > > > > The blocker is the Pumpa dependency QJson, which has a hard dependency > > on Qt-4. QJson is also used by libdbusmenu-qt. > > > > Apparently QJson's master branch has supported Qt-5 for some time, so I > > asked the maintainers if that is true, and if they plan to issue a new > > release [0]. We could try packaging from git. > > > > [0] > > https://github.com/flavio/qjson/issues/49 > > Sounds good. If they don't make a new release, I think packaging from > git is the best option. I agree. If they don't issue a new release in the next couple of days, I will test packaging from git.