Re: Expat 2.3.0 has been released

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hi Marius,


On 10.05.21 00:07, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> skriver:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>> just a quick heads up that there will be a new release of libexpat with
>> security fix in a few weeks.  Unless I looked in the wrong place, I
>> noticed that your distro has not updated to libexpat 2.3.0 as of today.
>>  If you ran into any issues with packaging 2.3.0, please let me know now
>> so that I can fix things upstream for you and everyone while there is
>> still a window before next releases to do so.  Thank you!
> 
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> I have updated expat on our "core-updates" branch, since it entails a
> full rebuild:
> 
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=core-updates&id=831c6d84e1bcff4b68dfd0f6e299f2c0bb60d0b8
> 
> I notice 2.3.0 does not have any ABI changes from 2.2.9.  In that case
> the security fix/version can be "grafted" in place without rebuilding
> the world.  So count us ready, we'll test 2.3.0 meanwhile.  :-)

Thank you!

Best



Sebastian