Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]> writes: > On 11 September 2012 19:53, Olivier Blin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> With the broken patch, gs failed with the following error: >>>> Fontmap entry for Fontmap.local ends prematurely! >>>> Giving up. >>> >>> Thanks for fixing it Olivier. Sorry for the breakage, but our package >>> was broken and pretty much unmaintained and bitrotting away. Good to >>> know we can look to Fedora in the future for fixes, since mdv seems to >>> be all but dead now. >> >> Yes, it would be a good idea to look at Fedora first instead of trying >> to rebase their patches by ourselves :) >> (Mandriva used Fedora's patches as well) > > Which means always adding a comment telling from where come > the patches. > It may be obvious for the maintainer but not for other packagers.
In the ghostscript case, there was a "# Fedora patches" comment already :) But it is not always easy to see these comments, they don't really stand out. -- Olivier Blin - blino
