Re: [PATCH 1/7] gnu: mutter: Update to HEAD.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi David,

David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (mutter): Update to HEAD.
>   [native-inputs]: Add autoconf, automake and libtool.
>   [arguments]: Add autoreconf phase.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> index f6f7aae69..5fbd0c111 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> @@ -4203,17 +4203,20 @@ to display dialog boxes from the commandline and 
> shell scripts.")
>      (license license:lgpl2.0+)))
>  
>  (define-public mutter
> +  ;; Bugfixes!
> +  (let ((commit "23c315ea7121e9bd108e2837d0b4beeba53c5e18"))

Could you be more specific?  :-)

I think relying on unreleased software is fine when that is known to fix
security issues.  In other cases, we should stick to upstream releases
IMO: it’s upstream’s job to decide when a commit can be considered a
release.

Ludo’.