GNU bug report logs - #30785
Man pages truncated, repeated

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:26:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #143 received at 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>,
 Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>,
 Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:57:28 +0100

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Apparently, man-db has groff-minimal as a regular input, so I guess we are 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?

Patch for the former is attached.

[0001-gnu-groff-minimal-Disable-relocatability.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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