From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 08:02:08 +0000 Message-ID: <20170624080208.ibacxwkzt2ndh7du@abyayala> References: <20170527170600.GA16269@jasmine> <87tw46140a.fsf@netris.org> <87a85yf1fj.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOg1Y-0000dp-3n for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:02:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOg1U-0006pl-47 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:02:32 -0400 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:53236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dOg1T-0006ni-Te for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2017 04:02:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a85yf1fj.fsf@elephly.net> 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 1.4K bytes: > > Mark H Weaver writes: > > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > >> The last update to libwmf was twelve years ago, in 2005. In the > >> meantime, a large number of security issues have been discovered in this > >> library. These bugs are fixed somewhat haphazardly by the distributions. > >> > >> While working on patching CVE-2016-9011 in libwmf, and backporting fixes > >> for CVE-2016-{9317,10167,10168} in the ancient bundled libgd, I find > >> myself wondering if we need this library at all. The patches from this > >> 12 year span of 3rd party fixes begin to conflict with each other... > >> > >> Libwmf is only used as a "plugin" by AbiWord, and AbiWord can be > >> configured to build without it. > > > > What functionality would be lost? I guess that AbiWord would lose the > > ability to open some kinds of files, but it would be good to know > > whether or not such files are still in common use. > > WMF is the native vector format for Microsoft Office applications, > according to Wikipedia, so this would probably affect the rendering of > some images in Word documents that are opened with Abiword. > > The format has continuously been developed, so it’s possible that libwmf > (with a last release in 2005) isn’t even able to handle recent versions > of WMF. > > I think it would be better to remove libwmf. > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net > > > Libreoffice is able to do that aswell. It doesn't use libwmf, right? -- ng0 OpenPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 infotropique OS: https://www.infotropique.org personal: https://ng-0.github.io https://krosos.org/~/ng0/