Re: GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix and security

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

Am 11.03.21 um 09:08 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> writes:
>
> > I must come to the conclusion that using GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix right
> > now is just straight out insecure. I would advise we either, get rid of
> > GNOME, backport all individual security patches (they can be
> > numerous..), or upgrade GNOME to latest and keep up over time.
> >
> > I don't think we can afford to spend time backporting security fixes to
> > the numerous GNOME packages with CVEs, not with current resources, it
> > is time-consuming.
>
> No, GNOME should be upgraded.  I upgraded it twice in the past, and it’s
> a lot of work, but certainly not impossible.
>
> I don’t know if anyone is working on it right now, though.  I was told
> months ago that Raghav Gururajan was working on GNOME upgrades as part
> of the wip-desktop branch, but my occasional questions for a status
> upgrade have gone unanswered.  Raghav, please correct me if I’m
> mistaken.  It would be good to clarify what is and isn’t the scope of
> wip-desktop.

I tried rebasing wip-gnome3.36 to master. I'm not done yet... But I
thinks its easier then merging the wip-desktop branch, because that one
is huge and a bit dirty...