Bug#720839: gnome-control-center: set --with-libsocialweb=no like FC19?

Osamu Aoki osamu at debian.org
Sun Sep 8 01:15:33 UTC 2013


Hi,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:13:28AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The bug in libsocialweb you are talking about seems to be
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4129.

I see.
 
> This should already be fixed in the version in unstable and jessie.

Good so this is only for experimental.  I guess you just have to be
careful updating next unstable...

> I would be personally tempted to keep libsocialweb integration in
> g-c-c, but quickly looking at the code, the only thing we would loose is
> the ability to select the background directly from flickr.
> 
> Any thought about this?

For me, such features should not be embedded into the core part of code
without consent.  That sounds like good gnome-shell extension target.
Then it is opt-in feature and everyone should be happy.

Regards,

Osamu



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