From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: Help needed to update VLC to 3.0.3 on the master branch Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 11:12:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0xd8q2e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tvqpbw4z.fsf@netris.org> 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]:33575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNxA5-0001d2-Ts for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 05:12:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNxA2-0004va-Mf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 05:12:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <87tvqpbw4z.fsf@netris.org> 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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver 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