Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-06-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 06:52:54PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 08:02:08AM +, ng0 wrote: > >> Libreoffice is able to do that aswell. It doesn't use libwmf, right? > > > > It looks like libreoffice has its own

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-06-24 Thread Mark H Weaver
Leo Famulari writes: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 08:02:08AM +, ng0 wrote: >> Libreoffice is able to do that aswell. It doesn't use libwmf, right? > > It looks like libreoffice has its own implementation for handling WMF > files. I'm okay with removing libwmf from Guix.

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-06-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 08:02:08AM +, ng0 wrote: > Libreoffice is able to do that aswell. It doesn't use libwmf, right? It looks like libreoffice has its own implementation for handling WMF files. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-06-24 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.9K bytes: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 03:06:35PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > >> Am 27.05.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > >> > I think it would be better to remove libwmf. > >> +1 > > > > Something to consider

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-06-24 Thread ng0
Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 1.4K bytes: > > Mark H Weaver writes: > > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > >> The last update to libwmf was twelve years ago, in 2005. In the > >> meantime, a large number of security issues have been discovered in this > >> library.

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-06-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:57:49PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 03:06:35PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > >> Am 27.05.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > >> > I think it would be better to remove libwmf. > >> +1 > > >

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-05-28 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 03:06:35PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 27.05.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > > I think it would be better to remove libwmf. > +1 Something to consider is that many of our packages can be described as unmaintained and full of bugs. And even the packages that

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-05-28 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 27.05.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > I think it would be better to remove libwmf. +1 -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-05-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Mark H Weaver writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> The last update to libwmf was twelve years ago, in 2005. In the >> meantime, a large number of security issues have been discovered in this >> library. These bugs are fixed somewhat haphazardly by the

Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-05-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Leo Famulari writes: > The last update to libwmf was twelve years ago, in 2005. In the > meantime, a large number of security issues have been discovered in this > library. These bugs are fixed somewhat haphazardly by the distributions. > > While working on patching

Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

2017-05-27 Thread Leo Famulari
The last update to libwmf was twelve years ago, in 2005. In the meantime, a large number of security issues have been discovered in this library. These bugs are fixed somewhat haphazardly by the distributions. While working on patching CVE-2016-9011 in libwmf, and backporting fixes for