On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 05:33:26PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > This fixes CVE-2016-{1762, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, > > 1840, 3627, 3705, 4483}. > > > > * gnu/packages/patches/libxml2-CVE-2016-3627.patch, > > gnu/packages/patches/libxml2-CVE-2016-3705.patch: Delete files. > > * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Remove them. > > * gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxml2/fixed): Update to 2.9.4. > > [source]: Remove patches. > > If this is claimed to be ABI-compatible with 2.9.3, fine with me.
After a few days with no reply on the upstream mailing list, and with no problems after reconfiguring my GuixSD GNOME system with this patch, I applied it as df2dd07b88. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2016-May/msg00031.html