Subject: [bug#37457] [PATCH] gnu: Add makeself-safeextract.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:09:42 +0200

Hello,

Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/compression.scm (makeself-safeextract): New variable.

[...]

> +      (synopsis "Extract makeself and mojo archives without running untrusted code")
> +      (description "A simple script to unpack makeself-generated
> +self-extractors without running the possibly untrusted shell script.")

What about:

  This package provides a script to unpack self-extracting archives
  generated by @command{makeself} or @command{mojo} without running the
  possibly untrusted extraction shell script.

?

(I didn’t know about these things.)

Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Ludo’.