From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: w3m: Switch to Debian's actively maintained fork of w3m. Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:27:04 +0100 Message-ID: <8760o31il3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mvhgw4w0.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20161103221718.123dc755@centurylink.net> <20161104040309.GA5474@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2eWV-0005Oe-IC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:27:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2eWR-0001bO-Gs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:27:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161104040309.GA5474@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Fri, 4 Nov 2016 00:03:09 -0400") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:17:18PM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:54:55 -0400 >> Kei Kebreau wrote: >>=20 >> > From b837111e3ddf406a3b9235538f63af678e3ac741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> > From: Kei Kebreau >> > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:58:48 -0400 >> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: w3m: Switch to Debian's actively maintained fork= of w3m. >> >=20 >> > Fixes some security issues seen here: >> > >> >=20 >> > * gnu/packages/patches/w3m-upstream-20120522.patch: New file. >> > * gnu/packages/patches/w3m-debian-updates.patch: New file. >> > * gnu/packages/w3m.scm (w3m): Switch to Debian's actively maintained >> > fork of w3m. >> > [source]: Use Debian's tarball and patches. Remove obsolete patches. >> > [arguments]: Remove unnecessary modification of %standard-phases. >> > * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Register new patches. Remove obsolete >> > patches. >> > --- >> > gnu/local.mk | 6 +- >> > gnu/packages/patches/w3m-debian-updates.patch | 28498 ++++++++++= +++++++++ >>=20 >> So theirs is the only actively maintained version of w3m and all they >> can provide is a 28.5 thousand line patch? No VCS repository? There >> must be some point at which it would be better for us to fetch the >> patch in an origin rather than importing it into our repo. > > I think we build from their Git repo: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/w3m.git > > They even offer non-Debian-ized release tags, such as > . Then we should use that instead of importing all the patches in our own repo, IMO. Kei: would that work for you? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.