On 9/20/21, Keith Marshall <keith.d.marsh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > ...and Bertrand opened a (belated) ticket: > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55107
Ah, thanks for the pointer; I'd overlooked that. > which has shown no activity since; (so even open tickets aren't immune > to fading into obscurity). Well, the difference is that open tickets continue to show up as issues that are unresolved whenever anyone looks at the list in savannah. Mailing list posts don't lodge a similar to-do item; unless someone happens to remember the post, or stumbles across it in the archives, it's effectively lost. > I would go even further ... groff should *not* be calling out to > external tools, such as grep — much less pdfinfo — from within core > code, in a manner which requires use of unsafe mode, *especially* when > core code to achieve the required functionally has been awaiting > integration for a number of years! I don't disagree with any of that. The ideal situation is for bug #55107 to be resolved. In the meantime, though, groff already *has* code calling an external program requiring unsafe mode, and this thread is proposing only to make this existing external call more robust, able to handle more cases. That seems a lower hurdle and worth doing if the proper solution is still some time off. Accordingly, I opened http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61324 for this purpose. I'm not certain if there was consensus in this thread around the sed or the awk solution, so I didn't propose a specific patch, but Heinz is welcome to if he's found something that works reliably.
