Re: Help needed to update VLC to 3.0.3 on the master branch

[Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Hello Guix,
>
> I just pushed a major VLC update to the 'core-updates' branch, commit
> 76277052939524d1ea3394f83739f06efd0dd8ae.  I pushed it to 'core-updates'
> because I've been living on that branch for months, and so it's the only
> branch that I can easily test for.
>
> However, I strongly suspect that the old VLC on master, and the old
> ffmpeg-2.8 that it depends on, are most likely a security risk.
>
> So, I would be grateful if someone could cherry-pick this commit to
> 'master', do some basic testing on it, and then push it on my behalf if
> it works.

I've had the VLC 3.0.1 commit applied on the master branch and VLC works
fine.  I only use ‘vlc’, and not ‘cvlc’.  We may have to wrap ‘cvlc’ as
well.  But we can do that at a later time if someone finds a problem.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen