groff-1.18.1.4

[Matthew Burgess]

This version has a security fix for the groffer script (CAN-2004-0969). As the script has been completely rewritten, the groffer.sh hunk of the debian fixes patch no longer applies.

[Matthew Burgess]

An updated debian patch is also available, which contains the equivalent to our:

sed -i -e '264 s/char_block::' src/devices/grohtml/post-html.cc

[Matthew Burgess]

I get the following failure trying to compile groffer from 1.18.1.3:

make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/groff-1.18.1.3/contrib/groffer'
rm -f groffer;
sed -f  \
    -e "s|@g@||g" \
    -e "s|@BINDIR@|/usr/bin|g" \
    -e "s|@libdir@|/usr/lib|g" \
    -e "s|@VERSION@|1.18.1|g" \
    -e 1s/a/a/ /sources/groff-1.18.1.3/contrib/groffer/groffer.sh >groffer;
sed: couldn't open file -e: No such file or directory

After posting to bug-groff, the maintainer says:

I'll soon release 1.18.1.4 which has this fixed. The SH_DEPS_SED_SCRIPT variable has been introduced after 1.18.1, and it has slipped in while updating the groffer script.

So, I'll hold off on upgrading groff until then.

[Matthew Burgess]

Sorry about the confusion caused by that rather terse comment above. The full thread on this is now available at ​http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2006-10/msg00004.html.

[Matthew Burgess]

Now 1.18.1.4. From NEWS: This is a bugfix release, correcting some compilation bugs which have been found in version 1.18.3.

[Jeremy Huntwork]

Milestone 6.3 deleted