Re: bug#66964: Request for merging "mesa-updates" branch

[Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 12:36 PM, Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 12:11 PM, John Kehayias john.kehayias@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi Kaelyn,
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 08:01 PM, Kaelyn wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've just submitted a pair of patches for the mesa-updates branch:
> > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67136 updating xorgproto and
> > > xorg-server-xwayland. The xorgproto is a high-impact update (guix
> > > refresh reports rebuilding 8710 packages would ensure 22871 dependent
> > > packages are rebuilt), but required to update to the latest xwayland
> > > as xwayland requires a newer version of presentproto than in the
> > > current guix xorgproto package. The updating and ungrafting of mesa
> > > and a number of X.org related libraries seemed like a good time (and
> > > place) to update xorgproto as well.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Kaelyn
> > 
> > Thanks for the patches. I think mesa-updates in this current iteration
> > is set on builds (ended up being a lot more due to the ungrafting but
> > seems done on our main architectures for several days now). I had to
> > make some other changes to fix some larger breakages but at this point I
> > think it will just be taking us back in the build queue too much.
> > 
> > So I think it would make more sense on the next big rebuild, either
> > core-updates (talk about doing that with more ungrafts right now) or
> > I'll do mesa-updates again when the next release of mesa hits. Or maybe
> > it makes sense to just do another branch for xwayland?
> > 
> > Open to ideas! I'll send a separate message soon on the status of
> > mesa-updates and see what people think, but my thought was to merge this
> > to master in the next day or so if there are no objections.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > John
> 
> 
> No worries! I realize I was a little late to the party for the mesa-updates branch (had some ongoing technical issues), so if core-updates is still early enough in the process I think it would be good to push the changes to that branch. The current xwayland is pretty old, and the updated version has quite a few CVEs fixed in comparison (just https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Halloween-Bugs-2023 and https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Holiday-2022 list 8 CVEs fixed between xwayland 21.1.3 and 23.2.2).

I forgot to sent an email when I did this, but a few weeks ago I updated the xorgproto/xwayland update ticket (#66964) to refer to core-updates instead of mesa-updates and sent in a v2 of the patches rebased against core-updates.

Cheers,
Kaelyn