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doc: Update documentation of guix lint 

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix lint): Add cpe-version to example.
(Invoking guix lint): Add example for lint-hidden-cve.

Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@ -6835,15 +6835,33 @@ where @code{CVE-YYYY-ABCD} is the CVE identifier---e.g.,
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:
name and version of the package when they differ from the name or version
that Guix uses, as in this example:
@example
(package
(name "grub")
;; @dots{}
;; CPE calls this package "grub2".
(properties '((cpe-name . "grub2"))))
(properties '((cpe-name . "grub2")
(cpe-version . "2.3")))
@end example
@c See <http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/15/3>.
Some entries in the CVE database do not specify which version of a
package they apply to, and would thus ``stick around'' forever. Package
developers who found CVE alerts and verified they can be ignored can
declare them as in this example:
@example
(package
(name "t1lib")
;; @dots{}
;; These CVEs no longer apply and can be safely ignored.
(properties `((lint-hidden-cve . ("CVE-2011-0433"
"CVE-2011-1553"
"CVE-2011-1554"
"CVE-2011-5244")))))
@end example
@item formatting