From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Icecat crash Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:24:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20170224182401.GA11732@jasmine> References: <20161226003450.24dcd472@scratchpost.org> <87tw9r796y.fsf@gmail.com> <20161226021519.GA30967@jasmine> <20170215231245.6ddf40c9@lepiller.eu> <20170221224443.GA18965@jasmine> <20170222093801.GA29885@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKXI-0004KF-A1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:24:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKXC-00060g-Nu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:24:08 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:44678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chKXC-00060c-KA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:24:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170222093801.GA29885@jocasta.intra> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:38:02AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:44:43PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:12:45PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > > Hey, I'm also experiencing crashes with icecat since a few months.= It > > just seems to happen randomly. I've found a note about that on the= LFS > > website on the firefox page that says that using system cairo is > > causing a crash when it tries to do background rendering. So I've > > changed our icecat recipe to use the bundled version of cairo, and= I > > don't get any crash anymore. Would something like this patch be > > acceptable? > =20 > For serious upstream vendors like Mozilla, one of the reasons they > bundle things is that they are hitting bugs in the 3rd party library > that are not fixed upstream. > =20 > On the other hand, distros like to unbundle because the upstream ven= dor > tends not to patch security vulnerabilities in their bundled copies > quickly enough, in our opinion. >=20 >=20 > Surely the advantage of a Functional Package Management System like Guix = is > that we have the best of both worlds. >=20 > We can specify a *specific* version of a dependency to use (patched if ne= cessary) > but are not forced to bundle it. You're right. Now that we've discussed some of the issues involved here, we can start working on fixing this bug in our package. Any takers? --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAliwekEACgkQJkb6MLrK fwhKeA/9GYKFMY6N/XWdWzZCTxiajE1QiVcO48UqnEeessfLSyiYJrC+w6E2rzHy te+hacRGF8BwlexlsnpUQ2yg91f/cR1SsfbjcTTLhgNd20MFVIJlXQCtrtCNYr9M o+vPiTlP9WRcQGTOeKmS2X4Y9v/oFVAKuNVtsUS53raqKZqhD2We1J3iySHWfWbL KpEDaQcJB/WqlH/hPmpddqzdq91yXhu/q3f0VI9GFSz8AFveVB+gS0Q++wyDX6Yt nTdvR6UAcswNGfxDmESq1ZaTkFHobzR3hIZU4EtUvMVaJ6SGEOGCH85TyNEDcSuC qXAPSOAPU3tEPy0dyiBH0pDL1mlvFe/P+c6ptiG+VKwLvfFf2FviENF741fzU20s v4ScAhCKrqCyJz9QsMHHfk8FzwS9AeN992a8t7XpwOABMf+nMdWcON3HBKIHlkol a4H6fEMXxeOFpP9thl88J7qLIkW7Qb86Icr4X0waz93nm7GWiHizk0Gmjj2alT3k nrXHvyGNTvNPsDTDoOJyWeE/ymSWMV0fIiPGpGJaUrkRlzbiUFS9ppUB4cO9Riuo UqpzoQe7/lyAtOqmwZypL9rr7Ws3WEjC8fKnfSp9nI+VC3xs8NBCWPQo5Pa4RLK6 kOD/X0iQRmjnbt6L34i6CXAUn/Gt+fIrSezjI5VZq4yAJhR5qnM= =rWoK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--