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Re: [PATCH 0/1] Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Dbus update 1.10.12 for core-updates
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:41:37 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17)

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:57:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Yeah, seems hard to exploit.  Apparently even if we’re not using systemd
> activations we could be vulnerable, because it’s about how specific
> messages are processed, IIUC.
> 
> > What do you think? Should we update this on core-updates?
> 
> I think so.

Okay. Just to clarify, this will trigger >1000 rebuilds.

> 
> > Should we graft it on master?
> 
> Unless there are possible ABI incompatibilies, it probably doesn’t hurt
> to do that.

According to the dbus README, the offer a stable ABI within each stable
release series:

https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/README

But, I found that the regular approach to grafting does not work for our
dbus package. Presumably, it's because (gnu packages glib) exports dbus
before defining it.



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