Subject: Re: bug#47144: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: patch: Update to 2.7.6-7623b2d [security fixes].

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:58:56 +0100

Hi,

Léo Le Bouter via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/base.scm (patch/fixed): New variable.
> (patch)[replacement]: Graft.

It’s (almost) useless to provide a graft of ‘patch’ because patch is
usually a build-time only dependency.  (Maybe we can tell it’s not
vulnerable to the issues at hand because in that context it’s always
given controlled input: the package patches.)

What could be useful is to provide a second version of patch so that
people running ‘guix install patch’ or similar get the newer version.

HTH,
Ludo’.