Ludo',
How horrid.
Ludovic Courtès wrote:
I tried removing them with a snippet (patch attached), but
installation
eventually fails while trying to link against libImageProcessor,
which
is now missing.
If I correctly read the Debian maintainer's post in the bug you
linked[0], it's possible to revert only the libImageProcessor
infec^Waddition. If it's all right with everyone, I'd like to give
that a try first. Say by tomorrow? Or do you want to revert first
& ask such questions later?
+ ;; This trick changes the behavior of the
+ ;; 'install-data-hook' target so that it
doesn't install the
+ ;; binary blobs.
+ (substitute* "Makefile.in"
+ (("^UNAME =.*")
+ "UNAME = free-software-only-thanks\n")
Nice. I wish it worked.
Aside, -ish: looks like most distributions there found out about
this file due to some failing sanity check. Perhaps we could add
our own, in ‘guix lint’ or at build time, to warn about ELF files
and other suspicious binaries in post-snippet sourceballs?
No idea if it's worth the trouble/performance hit/false-positive
rate, of course. That's for the ner^Wgods to decide.
Kind regards,
T G-R
[0]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1785230/comments/6
