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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

kicad seems to have a copy of the potrace code in the tree.
potrace_version.h claims this is version 1.12

the potrace website shows this changelog for 1.13 which was released on
22/10

Some critical bugs in the processing of BMP files were fixed. These bugs
allowed the program to be crashed, or potentially to be abused in other
ways, by feeding it specially crafted BMP files. Thanks to Tomasz Buchert
and Agostino Sarubbo for reporting these bugs. Portability was improved for
C99 and for MSVC++. Thanks to Peter Breitenlohner, Nelson Beebe, and Martin
Gieseking for reporting portability issues.


Is there any reason we have a copy of the code in the tree and are not just
making this a another dependency?

There are binaries for win/lin/osx on the potrace website and it is also
available in brew on osx