From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 32957@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32957: Python uses a bundled expat
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:27:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181010192714.GC22832@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9c7i0l6.fsf@fastmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 04:58:13PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Python 2 and 3 are using a bundled Expat (residing under Modules/).
>
> This has been the cause of security vulnerabilities in the past and
> should be changed to use Expat from Guix.
Looks like Debian uses an external Expat to fill the dependency, so it
should be possible:
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/python3.5-minimal
We should look into the difference between the bundled Expat and
upstream Expat.
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2018-10-06 14:58 bug#32957: Python uses a bundled expat Marius Bakke
2018-10-10 19:27 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2019-03-23 22:34 ` Marius Bakke
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