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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

And yet the files are also being modified unnecessarily making more effort when there is an update available,
The potrace library is not large and so seems pointless to bundle the code with the source tree.

If the potrace library is out of date with the distributions that can be expressed to the distributions esspecially since its been security updates and I am not familiar with a distribution that is currently supported by the distromaker to not get security updates

> On 27/11/2017, at 9:37 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 27/11/2017 à 09:00, Maciej Sumiński a écrit :
>> I wonder why do we even keep potrace in the source tree. It is available
>> in mingw, brew and major Linux distributions, so it does not need to be
>> build manually.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Orson
> 
> We need only potrace library source files (only 200Kbytes).
> They are not a lot ( 20 / 30 files).
> 
> Using potrace lib coming with distros is obviously an option, but it does not fix what is asked:
> potrace update ( and it creates one more (minor) dependency for compiling ).
> 
> For instance
> We are using currently potrace 1.13
> 
> potrace 1.15 fixes a few issues of potrace 1.13,  but on mingw the currently potrace version is 1.13
> 
>> 
>> On 11/27/2017 03:58 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>>> Ummmm I *think* its jp who does the potrace stuff but there has been another security update for pot race, while I realise we are in a freeze I think that security updates should probably be included.
>>> 
>>> "This release consists of bugfixes and minor portability improvements. Some potential buffer overflows and arithmetic overflows were fixed, including CVE-2017-12067. A bug triggered by very large bitmaps has been fixed. A new configuration option --enable-local-getopt was added. Thanks to Agostino Sarubbo, Daniel Macks, and Michael Voříšek for reporting bugs and suggesting improvements.”
>>> 
>>> Simon
> 
> 
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> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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