Mailing List Archive: guile-1.8 stabilization because of gnucash security bug

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See tracker bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163921).

guile-1.8 may go stable soon because of a security bug in gnucash (bug 167706).
I think all blocking bugs which are still open, can be fixed by either adding
use flag detection or depending on guile-1.6* as appropriate. The following
code can be used to check use flags:

if has_version =guile-1.8*; then
local flags="deprecated regex"
built_with_use dev-scheme/guile ${flags} || die "guile must be
built with \"${flags}\" use flags"
fi

Please fix your bugs :)
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On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:27 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> See tracker bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163921).
>
> guile-1.8 may go stable soon because of a security bug in gnucash (bug 167706).
> I think all blocking bugs which are still open, can be fixed by either adding
> use flag detection or depending on guile-1.6* as appropriate.

guile 1.6 and 1.8 are in the same SLOT still. I don't see how anyone
could depend on guile-1.6* - that's usable for when it's a separate SLOT
and not causing upgrade-downgrade cycles for users.

In line of this mail I articulated further my concerns about this kind
of DEP, and the existence of deprecated and discouraged USE flags in the
first place on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163908 - the
relevant guile related bug against gnome

> The following
> code can be used to check use flags:
>
> if has_version =guile-1.8*; then
> local flags="deprecated regex"
> built_with_use dev-scheme/guile ${flags} || die "guile must be
> built with \"${flags}\" use flags"
> fi
>
> Please fix your bugs :)

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Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@gentoo.org
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio

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