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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] guile-1.8 stabilization because of gnucash security bug
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:10:06
Message-Id: 1173017102.22542.45.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] guile-1.8 stabilization because of gnucash security bug by "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)"
1 On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:27 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
2 > See tracker bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163921).
3 >
4 > guile-1.8 may go stable soon because of a security bug in gnucash (bug 167706).
5 > I think all blocking bugs which are still open, can be fixed by either adding
6 > use flag detection or depending on guile-1.6* as appropriate.
7
8 guile 1.6 and 1.8 are in the same SLOT still. I don't see how anyone
9 could depend on guile-1.6* - that's usable for when it's a separate SLOT
10 and not causing upgrade-downgrade cycles for users.
11
12 In line of this mail I articulated further my concerns about this kind
13 of DEP, and the existence of deprecated and discouraged USE flags in the
14 first place on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163908 - the
15 relevant guile related bug against gnome
16
17 > The following
18 > code can be used to check use flags:
19 >
20 > if has_version =guile-1.8*; then
21 > local flags="deprecated regex"
22 > built_with_use dev-scheme/guile ${flags} || die "guile must be
23 > built with \"${flags}\" use flags"
24 > fi
25 >
26 > Please fix your bugs :)
27
28 --
29 Mart Raudsepp
30 Gentoo Developer
31 Mail: leio@g.o
32 Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio

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