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

[Collin Funk]

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:

> Another Col(l)in to the rescue!  I think I will also update our
> "HACKING" file to document how to update the gnulib submodule and do the
> foregoing as well.

:). Sounds good. If I remember correctly Coreutils has instructions on
how to update Gnulib in README-hacking. I always use that since I never
use git submodules. Not sure if it mentions ./bootstrap --bootstrap-sync
though.


Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> 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!

That most likely works fine too. The build-aux/bootstrap script is
autogenerated from some files in top/* in Gnulib's Makefile. Packages
can copy all of the files from top/* into their sources or alternatively
just the single build-aux/bootstrap script.

The --bootstrap-sync option should work correctly in either of those
cases so I suppose there is less work if you decide to reorganize
things.

Collin