On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:01:53AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> There are many security issues fixed since the netpbm package was
> created; I don't have a tally. Some of these fixes are contained in this
> release, but some are only available on the netpbm 'super-stable'
> branch. The netpbm release strategy is complicated; it will take some
> time to find relevant bug fixes and port them to this release series.

By the way, if you try patching netpbm, note that you'll need to apply
the patches in a build phase after making the patch's target files
writable. The SVN downloader seems to be creating all the files
read-only.