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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing vulnerable versions of dev-lang/v8
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:49:52
Message-Id: 527D5C6D.8070406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing vulnerable versions of dev-lang/v8 by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
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4 On 11/08/2013 04:18 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
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6 > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:22 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
7 > <phajdan.jr@g.o <mailto:phajdan.jr@g.o>> wrote:
8 >
9 > Problem #1 is that sci-geosciences/osgearth-2.4 depends on
10 > =dev-lang/v8-3.18.5.14 (see
11 > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484786> for context). It
12 > doesn't work with more recent v8, but it can be made to not depend
13 > on v8.
14 >
15 >
16 > If "made not to depend" means "bundle", is the bundled version any
17 > safer than the ebuild there? If the answer is no, you're now
18 > increasing the security issue.
19 >
20 > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flameeyes@×××××××××.eu
21 > <mailto:flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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24 https://github.com/gwaldron/osgearth/issues/333
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26 in short: they kind of forked (I am not sure if there are any major
27 modifications yet) it and do not plan to bundle it
28
29 there is no release more current than osgearth-2.4, so I am fine with
30 hardmasking/treecleaning osgearth
31
32 I will not maintain a fork of v8.
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