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#47144 security patching of 'patch' package

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: patch: Graft to latest commit [security fixes].
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Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

>  (define-public patch
>    (package
> +    (replacement patch/fixed)

Unless I’m mistaken, this will have practically no effect because Patch
is a build-time-only dependency.

My recommendation would be to not add a ‘replacement’ field at all.
Instead, you could add a new ‘patch/latest’ public variable pointing to
that commit that you picked.  That way, users running ‘guix install
patch’ or similar will get the latest version of Patch.

On the next ‘core-packages-team’ cycle, we’d update Patch to refer to
that commit.

WDYT?

Ludo’.




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