Location of Source-Repo (Re: Build errors with GCC 14)

[Oliver Bandel]

Quoting  Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.ca> (snt: 2024-05-21 00:38 +0200 CEST) 
(rcv: 2024-05-21 00:38 +0200 CEST):
> At Mon, 20 May 2024 22:09:26 +0200, Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> 
> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Build errors with GCC 14
> > 
> > Quoting  Valery Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru> (snt: 2024-05-19 02:08 +0200 
> > CEST) (rcv: 2024-05-19 02:08 +0200 CEST):
> > > On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 01:00:44 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Yes, the situation has seriously improved. The problem was
> > > > that I though that https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout
> > > > is still the official home of the project, so I considered
> > > > 3.39 to be the last official version of the project (couldn’t
> > > > you do something about that?).
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/william8000/lout is probably a good choice for the
> > > upstream repo for a distro.
> > > 
> > > -uwe
> > > 
> > 
> > My impression was, that this Git-Repo was meant to be the official
> > lout-Repo since it was initiated.
> > 
> > So I'm a bit irritated, that an update appeared elsewhere.
> 
> Jeff's announcement to my old list <lout-users@lists.planix.com> only
> mentioned the movement of the mailing list, nothing about repositories:
> 
>       From: Jeff Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au>
>       To: lout-users@lists.planix.com
>       Subject: Lout mailing list has moved
>       Message-ID: <20100910212027.GA1806@cpu0.cs.usyd.edu.au>
>       Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:20:27 +1000
>       
>       Dear Lout mailing list subscriber,
>       
>       The Lout mailing list has moved.  If you wish to continue
>       with this list, please subscribe to the new list below.
>       
>       Jeff Kingston
[...]

There was some communication about 10 years later...
... see below

[...]
> So, I for one never assumed there was any authority to the nongnu.org
> repository.
[...]


I was talking about
  https://github.com/william8000/lout/



Here some Mails from my local archive (slightly reformatted):


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  From: Jeffrey Kingston <jeffrey.kingston@sydney.edu.au>
  Subject: Re: Buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function
  Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:52:28 +0000

  > Is anyone still maintaining lout?

  I'm still around but I see little point in making new versions of Lout
  at this late stage.  So I guess I'm saying that I'm not maintaining
  Lout any longer.  If something serious turned up I suppose I
  would gird my loins and fix it, but that's very unlikely.

  Jeff Kingston
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  From: William Bader <williambader@hotmail.com>
  Subject: Re: Buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function
  Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 22:46:45 +0000

  I made a git repository at https://github.com/william8000/lout with
  history from all of the lout releases that I could find.
  I removed the generated postscript files because they make the commit
  differences large.
  I added a 3.41 commit with the patches that Fedora applies (update to
  the makefile, update to the FSF address, and the CVE fixes).
  (I have Fedora on my laptop, so I know how to get the source RPM and
  read the patch list from the rpm spec file.)
  I wrote a script that builds a local repository on my laptop by
  unpacking the tarballs and committing each one, and then I force push
  it to github, so if anything is wrong, or if anyone has lout releases
  that I couldn't find, I can rebuild it easily.
  A friend who is a git and github expert is looking at it, and I might
  rebuild it again if he has any more suggestions. Otherwise, everyone
  is fine with the structure of the repository, I can give access to
  anyone who wants.
  Regards, William
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  From: William Bader <williambader@hotmail.com>
  Subject: Lout 3.42 (Was: wikipedia page)
  Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:25:35 +0000

  The two buffer overflow issues have been fixed, and fixed versions are
  already included in some distributions.
  I set up a git repository https://github.com/william8000/lout/ with
  3.40 plus the buffer overflow fixes as 3.41.
  I also made a 3.42 version with additional fixes and some small enhancements,
  see the end of https://github.com/william8000/lout/blob/master/whatsnew 
(appended below)

  Regards,
  William
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  From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@13thmonkey.org>
  Subject: Re: Lout 3.42 (Was: wikipedia page)
  Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 13:34:53 +0100

  Hi William,

  On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:25:35AM +0000, William Bader wrote:
  > The two buffer overflow issues have been fixed, and fixed versions are
  > already included in some distributions.  I set up a git repository
  > https://github.com/william8000/lout/ with 3.40 plus the buffer overflow
  > fixes as 3.41.  I also made a 3.42 version with additional fixes and some
  > small enhancements, see the end of
  > https://github.com/william8000/lout/blob/master/whatsnew (appended below)

  Thanks for giving it a new home, it would be a shame if it got bitrotted.

  Reinoud
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Cheers,
  Oliver