On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > An aside, the CVE linter gives false positives for grafted packages. For > > example, try `guix lint -c cve openssl@1.0`. > > That’s been annoying me for some time so I’d like to see if we can > improve grafting in a way that would allow us to use a different version > number in the package replacement, which in turn would allow ‘guix lint’ > to see the right version number of the replacement.
That would be nice. The current situation (with misleading package versions) is a huge improvement over what we had before, but I think that users should not need to understand the implementation details of grafting to determine the version of packages. I always figured this quirky limitation was a side-effect of rushing to implement recursive grafting before OpenSSL 1.0.2g was released.
