On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Alexander Shukaev wrote: > I've talked to Emacs devs, and it's still questionable whether they will > backport that. It seems like releases of Emacs 24.x are going to be > suspended. > > Another question though, is it possible to make an option to install > "libgnutls-28.dll".
You are of course free to downgrade/freeze your packages as you see fit, but remember that it's not a supported scenario. > Emacs devs, for examples, also told me that the new GnuTLS has some security > issues, and is generally not meant for broad public yet. It's good that > MSYS2 is constistently catching up with bleeding edge features, but it's also > not good to blindly switch to new libraries/tools without having an option to > switch back. What do you think? We're following the model of Arch Linux, and the phrase "to blindly switch to new libraries" describes the model pretty well :). However, Arch Linux _is_ doing some testing before releasing new versions and they're also on v3.4.x, so maybe the issues are not so bad. Other than that, I can't say much about the GnuTLS upgrade or its implications, that's Alexey's field. On 6. 5. 2015 12:28, Alexander Shukaev wrote: > I'm not a huge fan of bumping, but this is just to let you know that I'm > still interested in your vision on this question. My vision is that GnuTLS is left as is, and Emacs can be fixed as I described before: On 30. 4. 2015 17:01, David Macek wrote: > 2) The fix can be cherry picked into a patch file and the mingw-w64-emacs > package can be modified to apply the patch. If you make a correct pull > request for this, I believe it will be accepted and the new, GnuTLS-enabled > packages shall become available in the repositories soon. When a proper > release comes out, the patch can be removed. Although it's a very small change(*) and I could do it, I was hoping you would, because you're definitely more able to test the resulting build. *) Essentially this: export GnuTLS patch file from Emacs git history, put it into mingw-w64-emacs directory, add to sources=, add line to prepare(), increase pkgrel, update checksums, build, test, commit, push, send pull request. -- David Macek
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