Re: kdesu security update needed

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > An aside, the CVE linter gives false positives for grafted packages. For
>> > example, try `guix lint -c cve address@hidden
>> 
>> That’s been annoying me for some time so I’d like to see if we can
>> improve grafting in a way that would allow us to use a different version
>> number in the package replacement, which in turn would allow ‘guix lint’
>> to see the right version number of the replacement.
>
> That would be nice. The current situation (with misleading package
> versions) is a huge improvement over what we had before, but I think
> that users should not need to understand the implementation details of
> grafting to determine the version of packages.
>
> I always figured this quirky limitation was a side-effect of rushing to
> implement recursive grafting before OpenSSL 1.0.2g was released.

Done in commit 57bdd79e485801ccf405ca7389bd099809fe5d67!  And with
9bee2bd1b02c7ef91cc7232e8647bd07525d3382, ‘guix lint -c cve address@hidden
reports the right thing (zero known CVEs).

Ludo’.