Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 07:40:38PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 06:31:36AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> > * gnu/packages/patches/libtiff-CVE-2017-9936.patch,
>> >   gnu/packages/patches/libtiff-CVE-2017-10688.patch: New files.
>> > * gnu/packages/image.scm (libtiff-4.0.8)[source]: Add patches.
>> > * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add them.
>> 
>> > +Patch lifted from upstream source repository (the changes to 'ChangeLog'
>> > +don't apply to the libtiff 4.0.8 release tarball):
>> > +
>> > +https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/6173a57d39e04d68b139f8c1aa499a24dbe74ba1
>> 
>> This is actually not the upstream source repository. It's a 3rd party
>> unofficial mirror.
>>
Ahhh, I blindly used the links from debian security tracker. Should have
been more careful. I wonder why they use links from an unofficial mirror.

>> To the chagrin of young packagers everywhere, libtiff is still using
>> CVS. Unless somebody beats me to it, I'll extract the patches from their
>> CVS repo later tonight.
>
:)

> I pushed this as dab536fe1ae5a8775a2b50fa50556445b6ac7818. Thanks for
> getting it started Alex!

You're welcomed!