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Re: 03/15: gnu: wxwidgets: Use webkitgtk-2.4.
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Danny Milosavljevic |
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Re: 03/15: gnu: wxwidgets: Use webkitgtk-2.4. |
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Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:55:34 +0100 |
Hi Leo,
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:19:04 -0500
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > dannym pushed a commit to branch master
> > in repository guix.
> >
> > commit 8a58182c12193ae27359591c92febfdd602411f4
> > Author: Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon Jan 22 17:34:13 2018 +0100
> >
> > gnu: wxwidgets: Use webkitgtk-2.4.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm (wxwidgets)[inputs]: Replace "webkitgtk" by
> > "webkitgtk-2.4".
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> What's the reason for this change?
wxwidgets didn't enable webview at all - which failed a few other
programs (I looked through the core-updates hydra failure list).
> Webkitgtk is actively examined and exploited by security researchers. I
> think we should try not to build wxwidgets with this unmaintained
> version of webkitgtk.
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> If some application needs wxwidgets with this older webkitgtk
Sorry, didn't know. Should we revert this for the time being?