Re: Needed: tooling to detect references to buggy */stable packages (was: Re: [PATCHES] ImageMagick security updates without grafting)

[Maxime Devos]

On Sun, 2021-04-04 at 16:14 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Maxime Devo wrote:
> > * In some places we have the following pattern:
> > 
> >   [...]
> I don't understand this.  Why would it need to be made unconditional?

I don't understand either anymore.

> [...]
>
> At the present time, I'm more inclined to add machinery to automatically
> add _implicit_ #:disallowed-references, to enforce this checking at
> package build time.  This would require rebuilding everything that
> depends on a '*/stable' package, which means that this kind of tooling
> could not be applied directly to 'master', but would need to go through
> 'staging'.

That seems good to me.  I believe the current plan is:

* Add a 'stable' property to the gtk-doc/stable, dblatex/stable ... packages.
* Change gnu-build-system, glib-or-gtk-build-system ... to implicitely add
  packages in inputs, propagated-inputs or native-inputs that have the 'stable'
  property to #:disallowed-references, unless the package that is being built is
  a 'stable' package itself.

And an idea for the future is:

* Implicitely add all packages in native-inputs to #:disallowed-references,
  unless they are in inputs or propagated-inputs as well.
* Verify everything still works well (when cross-compiling and when compiling
  natively), and fix breakage.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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