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Guix packages old/broken version of qutebrowser

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Florian Bruhin <me <at> the-compiler.org>
Subject: bug#38148: closed (Re: bug#38148: Guix packages old/broken
 version of qutebrowser)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:56:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#38148: Guix packages old/broken version of qutebrowser

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 38148 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: me <at> the-compiler.org
Cc: 38148-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38148: Guix packages old/broken version of qutebrowser
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:55:40 +0100

Hi Florian,

> I'm the upstream author of qutebrowser - it looks like Guix currently packages
> qutebrowser 0.11.0: https://guix.gnu.org/packages/qutebrowser-0.11.0/
>
> That version is very outdated (July 2017, there have been 28 new releases since
> then).

The qutebrowser package has been updated to 1.8.3 on Dec 24 with commit
d7c58c3e5449d9fb96a15928cc65f12f111d0569.

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From: Florian Bruhin <me <at> the-compiler.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Guix packages old/broken version of qutebrowser
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 11:05:30 +0100

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Hi,

I'm the upstream author of qutebrowser - it looks like Guix currently packages
qutebrowser 0.11.0: https://guix.gnu.org/packages/qutebrowser-0.11.0/

That version is very outdated (July 2017, there have been 28 new releases since
then). It has various known security issues, but currently it just crashes
outright, because such an old version isn't compatible with Qt 5.11 which is
packaged in Guix.

That results in me getting crash reports around once per week - at this point,
it'd probably be better to not package qutebrowser at all, seeing that nobody
seems to maintain that package for a long time now.

Florian

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