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Re: GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix and security
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix and security |
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Thu, 11 Mar 2021 10:11:33 +0100 |
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Raghav Gururajan <rg@raghavgururajan.name> writes:
> Hi Ricardo!
>
>> 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.
>
> wip-desktop consists of some upgrades, plus, lot of improvements to
> gnome packages and it's immediate dependencies. About 50% of them not
> merged directly in master. When Danny and I, were merging other 50% to
> core-updates, core-updates were broken. So we tried to merge few
> commits in master, which got reverted due to high re-builds. I was
> told by Danny that we can only merge stuff when c-u is back to normal.
Thanks for the update!
> Since huge time has passed, we need to re-work some commits with
> rebasing from master. This gonna require testing via huge re-builds.
> Danny is working on setting-up a powerful system to do this work.
I think that ci.guix.gnu.org should be capable of building your branch.
> Let me speak to Danny and get back to you here. Due to the security
> nature of this issue, I am willing to spend this month focusing on
> GNOME/wip-desktop.
Excellent! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to assist.
--
Ricardo
Re: GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix and security, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/11