From: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>, 48304@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#48304] [PATCH] gnu: expat: Update via graft.
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 17:33:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r9xqxce.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJf+TnQ+DenU++Mx@jasmine.lan>
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merge 48304 48612
thanks
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skriver:
> On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:37:39PM +0200, Leo Prikler wrote:
>> Indeed, the mail they dropped over at guix-devel made it seem as though
>> not being on 2.3.0 was a security risk already. The ChangeLog does
>> mention some items worth fuzzing over.
>
> In general, all updates are security updates. But we shouldn't / can't
> update all core packages with grafts just because. Grafting is a kludge
> that doesn't always work as expected (and the problems are hidden), and
> it has a high I/O performance cost.
>
> So, let's wait for a security advisory.
I opened a similar discussion about the security fix in Expat 2.4.0
recently and am merging with this issue (which I had not seen):
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48612
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-23 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-08 23:27 [bug#48304] [PATCH] gnu: expat: Update via graft Leo Prikler
2021-05-09 14:05 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-09 14:27 ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-09 14:32 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-09 14:37 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-09 15:22 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-23 15:33 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2021-06-03 3:17 ` bug#48304: " Leo Famulari
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