Nixpkgs: binutils 2.33.1

Created on 21 Jan 2020  路  2Comments  路  Source: NixOS/nixpkgs

Describe the bug

binutils is currently 2.31.1 in nixpkgs master. It was released in July 2018.

2.33.1 was released in October 2019. It contains a few improvements and may also contains fix for some vulnerabilities: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/63061

Is there a reason to keep the old version in nixpkgs, other than a lack of manpower?

I'd be happy to do this work, but I just want to be sure that I was not starting a long, difficult and redundant work. I already tried a "naive" bump of the version and sha256 but it does not work, mostly because most of the patchs are not valid anymore.

bug package (update)

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This was solved by https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85951

cc. @flokli @veprbl

Thank you for continuing this work!

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