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Re: Help needed with security updates for Qt


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Help needed with security updates for Qt
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:29:58 +0200
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宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> Better yet, we should try to get it to use our system copies of
>> libraries whenever possible.
> Yes, as I know, the remains bundled libraries are:
>   pcre, need build with '--enable-pcre16'
>   jasper, not packaged yet, and need various security patches
>   leveldb, not packaged yet
>   harfbuzz, libtiff and libwebp

Sounds doable.

> I'd like to try re-package qt5 with submodules, and drop QtWebEngine.
> As same as Debian and NixOS did.

And Fedora.  Ricardo found this insightful discussion:

  http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-February/019960.html

+1 for removing QtWebEngine and thus have a snippet that removes the
bundled Chromium altogether.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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