GNU bug report logs - #46194
Doas vulnerability CVE-2019-25016

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Message #13 received at 46194-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>
Cc: 46194-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46194: [PATCH] gnu: opendoas: Update to 6.8.1.
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:16:06 -0500

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 08:41:07PM +0100, Brice Waegeneire wrote:
> * gnu/packages/admin.scm (opendoas): Update to 6.8.1.
> 
> Fixes #46194.
> ---
> As there isn't any service for this package (I'm working on it), it's quite
> useless and there isn't any package depending on it.  I guess very few
> people, if any, are using it so I see no need for grafting here.

Thanks! I pushed as 9c8156507abeb15f6d3816800c077fd99f861e3d

The question of "should it be grafted" depends on how many packages
depend on it:

$ guix refresh -l opendoas
No dependents other than itself: opendoas <at> 6.8

If `guix refresh` reports that more than 300 packages will be rebuilt,
security updates should use grafts, as specified in the manual section
Submitting Patches:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html

We don't want to wait for a 'staging' or 'core-updates' cycle for
security updates, so grafts let us cheat and push things directly to
master, without requiring expensive recompilation of dependent packages.

I know you could have pushed this yourself, although I did it on your
behalf. Now that we've clarified the use case of grafts, please feel
free to push things like this without review :)

The manual section Commit Access offers some guidelines:

"For patches that just add a new package, and a simple one, it’s OK to
commit, if you’re confident (which means you successfully built it in a
chroot setup, and have done a reasonable copyright and license
auditing). Likewise for package upgrades, except upgrades that trigger a
lot of rebuilds (for example, upgrading GnuTLS or GLib)."

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