Fwd: mandoc debian release

Fwd: mandoc debian release

[Kristaps Dzonsons]

Not sure if this is on the mandoc lists...


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Subject: mandoc debian release
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:23:58 +0200
From: zPlus <zplus@peers.community>
To: kristaps@bsd.lv

Hello Kristaps,
there seems to be a problem with mandoc when converting this page[1] 
which I got
from Debian. Basically, halfway through it gets stuck in an infinite 
loop, no
error, 100% CPU, just keeps spinning. I used the most recent version, 
1.14.6,
which I found un Debian testing and unstable.
I asked for help on IRC in #openbsd and they confirmed this is fixed in
"yesterday's -current" version.
They pointed me to your website, and suggested that I write to you 
asking for a
new release. So this is the reason of my email, could you please make a new
release of mandoc such that Debian can pick up the new changes too?
Thank you a lot!

[1] stress-ng.1.en: https://paste.centos.org/view/raw/86b12296

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Re: Fwd: mandoc debian release

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hi zplus,

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: mandoc debian release
> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:23:58 +0200
> From: zPlus <zplus@peers.community>
> To: kristaps@bsd.lv
> 
> Hello Kristaps,
> there seems to be a problem with mandoc when converting this page[1] 
> [1] stress-ng.1.en: https://paste.centos.org/view/raw/86b12296

I suspect this to be exactly the same bug as discussed here:

  https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209830

> which I got
> from Debian. Basically, halfway through it gets stuck in an infinite 
> loop, no
> error, 100% CPU, just keeps spinning. I used the most recent version, 
> 1.14.6,
> which I found un Debian testing and unstable.
> I asked for help on IRC in #openbsd and they confirmed this is fixed in
> "yesterday's -current" version.
> They pointed me to your website, and suggested that I write to you 
> asking for a
> new release. So this is the reason of my email, could you please make a new
> release of mandoc such that Debian can pick up the new changes too?
> Thank you a lot!

Eventually, we will certainly roll a new mandoc release, but i can't
give a time estimate yet when that will happen.

In the meantime, if you want to fix the Debian port, can you simply
include this patch:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/mandoc/out.c.diff?r1=1.54&r2=1.55

into the Debian port here:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mdocml/-/tree/master/debian/patches

Does that work for you, as a stopgap measure?

Yours,
  Ingo
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