From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: w3m: Switch to Debian's actively maintained fork of w3m.
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 00:03:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161104040309.GA5474@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161103221718.123dc755@centurylink.net>
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:17:18PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:54:55 -0400
> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
> > From b837111e3ddf406a3b9235538f63af678e3ac741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
> > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:58:48 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: w3m: Switch to Debian's actively maintained fork of w3m.
> >
> > Fixes some security issues seen here:
> > <http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/03/3>
> >
> > * gnu/packages/patches/w3m-upstream-20120522.patch: New file.
> > * gnu/packages/patches/w3m-debian-updates.patch: New file.
> > * gnu/packages/w3m.scm (w3m): Switch to Debian's actively maintained
> > fork of w3m.
> > [source]: Use Debian's tarball and patches. Remove obsolete patches.
> > [arguments]: Remove unnecessary modification of %standard-phases.
> > * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Register new patches. Remove obsolete
> > patches.
> > ---
> > gnu/local.mk | 6 +-
> > gnu/packages/patches/w3m-debian-updates.patch | 28498 +++++++++++++++++++
>
> So theirs is the only actively maintained version of w3m and all they
> can provide is a 28.5 thousand line patch? No VCS repository? There
> must be some point at which it would be better for us to fetch the
> patch in an origin rather than importing it into our repo.
I think we build from their Git repo:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/w3m.git
They even offer non-Debian-ized release tags, such as
<v0.5.3+git20161031>.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-03 22:54 [PATCH] gnu: w3m: Switch to Debian's actively maintained fork of w3m Kei Kebreau
2016-11-04 3:17 ` Eric Bavier
2016-11-04 4:03 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-11-04 13:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-11-04 13:59 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-11-04 14:52 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-11-04 15:48 ` Leo Famulari
2016-11-04 17:05 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-11-04 23:54 ` Leo Famulari
2016-11-05 0:08 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-11-05 0:16 ` Leo Famulari
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2016-11-03 22:08 Kei Kebreau
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