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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: Re: 03/15: gnu: wxwidgets: Use webkitgtk-2.4.
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:55:34 +0100
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Hi Leo,

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:19:04 -0500
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > dannym pushed a commit to branch master
> > in repository guix.
> > 
> > commit 8a58182c12193ae27359591c92febfdd602411f4
> > Author: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
> > Date:   Mon Jan 22 17:34:13 2018 +0100
> > 
> >     gnu: wxwidgets: Use webkitgtk-2.4.
> >     
> >     * gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm (wxwidgets)[inputs]: Replace "webkitgtk" by
> >     "webkitgtk-2.4".  
> 
> What's the reason for this change?

wxwidgets didn't enable webview at all - which failed a few other
programs (I looked through the core-updates hydra failure list).

> Webkitgtk is actively examined and exploited by security researchers. I
> think we should try not to build wxwidgets with this unmaintained
> version of webkitgtk.
> 
> If some application needs wxwidgets with this older webkitgtk

Sorry, didn't know.  Should we revert this for the time being?