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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: kdesu security update needed
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 17:47:25 -0400
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To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:36:48PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> >> > An aside, the CVE linter gives false positives for grafted packages. For
> >> > example, try `guix lint -c cve openssl@1.0`.
> >> 
> >> That’s been annoying me for some time so I’d like to see if we can
> >> improve grafting in a way that would allow us to use a different version
> >> number in the package replacement, which in turn would allow ‘guix lint’
> >> to see the right version number of the replacement.
> >
> > That would be nice. The current situation (with misleading package
> > versions) is a huge improvement over what we had before, but I think
> > that users should not need to understand the implementation details of
> > grafting to determine the version of packages.
> >
> > I always figured this quirky limitation was a side-effect of rushing to
> > implement recursive grafting before OpenSSL 1.0.2g was released.
> 
> Done in commit 57bdd79e485801ccf405ca7389bd099809fe5d67!  And with
> 9bee2bd1b02c7ef91cc7232e8647bd07525d3382, ‘guix lint -c cve openssl@1.0’
> reports the right thing (zero known CVEs).

Awesome :)