With the recent xz-utils backdoor, there's been more focus on cases
where build systems rely on files produced by "make dist" and included
in release tarballs. It's already fairly standard practice for
distributions to rebuild configure scripts using autoreconf, but less so
to rebuild the files th
At 2024-03-29T15:55:43+0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > Predict the output of the following *roff input.
> > [...]
>
> I guessed wrong. And Heirloom nroff behaves differently
> from groff.
DWB and Seventh Edition Unix nroff behave the same as each other but
differently from _both_ groff and H
Hi Colin,
At 2024-03-31T11:30:25+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> With the recent xz-utils backdoor, there's been more focus on cases
> where build systems rely on files produced by "make dist" and included
> in release tarballs. It's already fairly standard practice for
> distributions to rebuild con
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 06:04:47AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-03-31T11:30:25+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I looked into what it would take for Debian's groff package to do a
> > full rebootstrap from its packaged version of gnulib. It seems
> > relatively straightforward, but it
