Subject: [bug#35446] [PATCH v2 05/24] gnu: calibre: Patch out unrar test.

From: Brendan Tildesley <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 21:32:09 +1000

On 5/5/19 9:19 PM, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Why is the unrar test being removed?

unrar was removed from Guix, although I still use it myself.

commit 2560aa7adbfcb46306e8b19180bd48d39c2da6dc
Author: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date:   Tue Oct 24 14:49:26 2017 -0400

    gnu: Remove unrar.

    This package is abandoned upstream and contains serious bugs:

    http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/329
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14120