[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#910124: network-manager-gnome: option to import/export WiFi config as a QR code

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the heads-up.

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:26:58PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 30.05.19 um 04:36 schrieb Paul Wise:
> > On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 12:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 
> >>> This has been implemented in 1.8.22.
> >> This is apparently implemented as well.
> > 
> > Thanks for the notice.
> > 
> >> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/merge_requests/45
> > 
> > This appears to introduce an embedded code copy, you might want to let
> > the security team know about that once it reaches Debian.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> Dear security team,
> network-manager-applet 1.8.22 has been uploaded to experimental. It uses
> an internal copy of
> https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library
> which afaics is not (yet) packaged for Debian.
> See
> https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager-applet/blob/experimental/src/libnma/qrcodegen.c

Is that the same as src:qr-code-generator as present in unstable, cf.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qr-code-generator . 

Is the network-manager-applet embedded copy unmodified? If so it would
be preferable if network-manager-applet could switch to the system
one.

Regards,
Salvatore