Re: Bug in telnet from inetutils-2.2: Insufficient buffer space for longish DISPLAY names

[Erik Auerswald]

Hello Alfred,

On 19.02.22 20:27, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>     On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 05:18:01PM +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>     > On 01.02.22 10:01, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>     > >
>     > >I am a colleague of Joerg and could reproduce the bug on Ubuntu
>     > >GNU/Linux with a freshly built telnet client from GNU inetutils 2.2:
>     > >[...]
>     > [...]
>     > Please let me know if you would like to use this patch, but would
>     > first require me to complete copyright assignment paperwork.
>
>     Just in case it helps I have just sent the copyright assignment papers
>     to the FSF.
>
> Thank you!

You're welcome. :-)

> I've sorta dropped the ball on this, sorry for that.  Do you want to
> take the ball? Whip up the patches, etc?  And I'll hand out commit
> (after approval) access for you when the paperwork is done.

I am not sure what you mean by "take up the ball" exactly.

I am currently not a GNU (co-)maintainer, and have never been.

I can expand the patches to comprise hopefully appropriate
changes to the NEWS file, and provide a suitable commit message
in a format usable with 'gitlog-to-changelog'.  I can do that
using 'git format-patch' so the result can be applied easily to
the development repository.

At least initially I'd feel more comfortable with existing GNU
inetutils maintainers reviewing and applying my patches.

I am open to start on the way towards becoming a co-maintainer
of GNU inetutils, but I do not feel comfortable taking over too
many responsibilities at once.

I am mostly interested in the telnet client for interoperability
with existing systems.  That is the one component I am likely
to use regularly in the future.  GNU inetutils comprises more
than just that.

I hope that you can make use of the help I am able to provide.

Best regards,
Erik