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Re: Help needed to update VLC to 3.0.3 on the master branch
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 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 25.3.1 |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> 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