bug#47359: IceCat shows ACE/Punycode instead of IDN

Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > IceCat shows ASCII-compatible encoding (ACE, roughly Punycode) for > so-called internationalized domain names (IDNs) instead of displaying > them properly—e.g., instead of > . I see the same behavior,

bug#47587: 'guix system edit' subcommand

On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 02:18:56AM +0200, Léo Le Bouter via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > Hello! > > Like 'guix edit hello' we could have 'guix system edit screen-locker' > for easy access to customize services. > > What do you think? Is this hard to do? I don't know, but it's a great idea!

bug#47573: make check-system fails on master

On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 01:57:32AM +0200, Léo Le Bouter via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > It seems running 'make clean' then 'make check-system' again solved the > issue. Probably some build system inconsistency issue. Alright, thanks for following up. Yeah, the Git tree can get into a weird

bug#47584: Race condition in ‘copy-account-skeletons’: possible privilege escalation.

On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 18:26 +0200, Maxime Devos wrote: > A suggested blog post is attached. A revised blog post is attached. The following points are currently _not_ addressed: Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Also… in this paragraph, it’s not entirely clear which user we’re > talking about it. In news

bug#47592: [WIP Emacs] Emacs packages, that fail to build on master

I'm currently in the process of verifying, that all Emacs packages build in the wip-emacs branch. To that end, I'm running a manifest generated from all emacs-xyz exports, which will fail for some package, that I've broken, then rinse and repeat. However, there are some build failures, that exist

bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix

Hi Maxim! Am Sonntag, den 04.04.2021, 00:35 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > Hi Leo! > > Leo Prikler writes: > > > With this, the search path specification of EMACSLOADPATH does no > > longer > > depend on the version of Emacs, which should make upgrading major > > versions > > less painful. S

bug#47584: Race condition in ‘copy-account-skeletons’: possible privilege escalation.

On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 22:33 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Maxime Devos skribis: > > > The attack consists of the user being logged in after the account > > skeletons have been copied to the home directory, but before the > > owner of the account skeletons have been set. The user then deletes >