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Re: [bug #64301] [troff] susceptible to integer overflow


From: Colin Watson
Subject: Re: [bug #64301] [troff] susceptible to integer overflow
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:15:36 +0100

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 06:59:08AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-07-15T17:03:53-0700, Collin Funk wrote:
> > Not directly related, but I noticed that groff uses a ./bootstrap
> > script which is 2 years behind gnulib updates.
> > 
> > Whenever you update the gnulib git submodule I would recommend running:
> > 
> >     $ ./bootstrap --bootstrap-sync
> 
> Ah, thank you.  I noticed Colin Watson had recently achieved that update
> for man-db and was going to ask him how to do it.

I must confess that I'd generally just been copying the file by hand
from the gnulib checkout (build-aux/bootstrap).  I will try to remember
that the --bootstrap-sync option exists!

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]



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