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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:32:12 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, 30785@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello!

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Apparently, man-db has groff-minimal as a regular input, so I guess we ar=
e lucky.
> So we could adapt groff-minimal only if we wanted to.
>
> But that would mean that even after that, the "groff" package would still
> contain a memory corruption bug in preconv - which is arguably a security
> problem.  Should we use grafts instead?

Though in practice we don=E2=80=99t do much with =E2=80=98groff=E2=80=99 it=
self, unless users
explicitly install it and use it, right?  I=E2=80=99m leaning towards fixin=
g it
in =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99.

> From adc9e7940b54e467732ec923c6a3fcec810dce48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:00:04 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: groff-minimal: Disable relocatability.
> Tags: patch
>
> * gnu/packages/groff.scm (groff-minimal)[arguments]<#:phases>
> [disable-relocatability]: New phase.

Please add the =E2=80=9CFixes=E2=80=9D line in the log.  Otherwise LGTM (I =
like the
description of the bug ;-)).

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.