Re: cygstart: buffer overflow when a URI is passed (cygutils-1.4.17-[23])

On 24/04/2025 21:31, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On 4/24/2025 11:57 AM, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
>>
>>> A new version 1.4.17-4 of the cygutils packages with a corrected
>>> 'cygstart' is now making its way to the mirrors.
>>
>> Can I ask why patches are made in the packaging rather than applied to
>> the cygwin-apps/cygutils git repository, given that this package is
>> "local" to Cygwin and therefore has no other "upstream"?  How would you
>> decide to make a 1.4.17-4 rather than a 1.4.18-1?
> 
> A fair question.
> 
> I think cygutils might have been the first package I ITA'd years ago.  I 
> wasn't yet up to speed on the whole package management framework.  I'm 
> (somewhat) better with the more recent adoptions I've made.  As time 
> permits all the packages I manage will be done identically and involve 
> the cygwin-apps git repository, the CI process, etc.
> 
> I personally would probably go to 1.4.18-1 when some major packaging 
> change was made.  I went from 1.4.16 to 1.4.17 when I took over from 
> Chuck Wilson.

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If you ever run short, I have an inexhaustible supply of monotonically 
increasing integers you can use...