On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:09:01 PST Dave Woodfall wrote: > On Tuesday 1 January 2019 20:24, > > Benjamin Trigona-Harany <slackbui...@jaxartes.net> put forth the proposition: > > Hello users of Newsbeuter, the first half of this email is for your eyes > > only. Everyone else may skip to the third paragraph. > > I use newsbuter and found that debian have 23 patches in all for > version 2.9.5: > > https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/newsbeuter > > 2.9.8 has 25: > > https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/newsbeuter > > Couldn't we use these rather than mess about with rust?
My existing Newsbeuter SlackBuild should have all the same security patches as Debian. Those patches were all contributed by Alexander, the current maintainer of Newsboat, back when he was working on Newsbeuter. Unfortunately, he was not given the required permissions to properly release a new version with his fixes and made the decision to fork the project instead (it was all on the Newsbeuter maillist a couple of years ago). I doubt that you'll see any further security patches for Newsbeuter from him or anyone else; the community has moved on to Newsboat, whose only flaw seems to be its objectively worse name. Incidentally, there's also no pressing need to move to Newsboat 2.14 and its new Rust dependency. I'm just opening the door a crack in case there's someone who wants to make it happen sooner than later. Ben _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/