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@@ -4961,6 +4961,19 @@ To view information about a particular vulnerability, visit pages such as:
where @code{CVE-YYYY-ABCD} is the CVE identifier---e.g.,
@code{CVE-2015-7554}.
+Package developers can specify in package recipes the
+@uref{https://nvd.nist.gov/cpe.cfm,Common Platform Enumeration (CPE)}
+name and version of the package when they differ from the name that Guix
+uses, as in this example:
+
+@example
+(package
+ (name "grub")
+ ;; @dots{}
+ ;; CPE calls this package "grub2".
+ (properties '((cpe-name . "grub2"))))
+@end example
+
@item formatting
Warn about obvious source code formatting issues: trailing white space,
use of tabulations, etc.