Re: Windows Installer for Testing

2018-09-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag, den 01.09.2018, 15:36 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > > Here's a simple patch which would need a bit of additional work, > > but can > > be a kind of proof of concept (and be tested). Comments? The one which you accidentally committed looks promising. Jürgen > Updated patch.

Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too (was: 2.3.1 Binaries)

2018-09-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Are available for testing at http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/. > I suppose we should wait to prepare binaries until we have some feedback. Before we announce we might consider to issue new warning as part of release. Or even as a separate entry. After the r

Re: Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too (was: 2.3.1 Binaries)

2018-09-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Unfortuntaly there is very little we can directly for 2.3.1. > We should at least signalize in announcement for distro maintainers that this > *is* > issue and perhaps add some hint how to allow users to locally enable things > in po

Re: Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too (was: 2.3.1 Binaries)

2018-09-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 09/02/2018 10:50 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> In longer-term -- if this ban continues -- we might try to ask Qt to do the >> conversions instead of imagemagick, but that's is definitely not for 2.3.1. > That might be a good backup

Re: Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too

2018-09-02 Thread Daniel
On 02/09/2018 12:59, Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Are available for testing at http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/. I suppose we should wait to prepare binaries until we have some feedback. Before we announce we might consider to issue new warning as part of release. O

Re: Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too (was: 2.3.1 Binaries)

2018-09-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Sonntag, den 02.09.2018, 12:59 +0200 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > After the recent discovery of ghoscript vulnerabilities distributions > seem to > actually follow suggestion of the security researcher who announced > them > and broadly ban any conversions from ps/eps/pdf/xps in imagemagick no > matt

Re: Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too

2018-09-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
Daniel wrote: >> in policy.xml so they can continue their work. >> In longer-term -- if this ban continues -- we might try to ask Qt to do >> the >> conversions instead of imagemagick, but that's is definitely not for >> 2.3.1. >> Other ideas? >> Pavel >> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/sec

Re: Imagemagick might be banned from postscipt/pdf conversion soon on your distro too

2018-09-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 09/02/2018 05:27 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Daniel wrote: >>> in policy.xml so they can continue their work. >>> In longer-term -- if this ban continues -- we might try to ask Qt to do >>> the >>> conversions instead of imagemagick, but that's is definitely not for >>> 2.3.1. >>> Other ideas? >>