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Re: [bug-enscript] ISO-8859-1[3456] support
From: |
Tapani Tarvainen |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-enscript] ISO-8859-1[3456] support |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:16:50 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) |
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:41:20PM +0000, Tim Retout (address@hidden) wrote:
> Sorry for being slow to respond, I was away from the internet for the
> weekend. :)
Good for you. :-)
> I will have a proper look at your changes tomorrow evening. My first
> thought is, are you able to send a set of patches against the version in
> git?
Will this do:
http://tapani.tarvainen.info/enscript/enscript.patch
(It's 800k, so I won't send it to the list.)
> Second, would you be willing to assign the copyright in your changes to
> the FSF, so that I can commit it upstream?
Of course.
> I'm working on getting a maintenance release out in the next few weeks;
> I hope to get the code into a decent shape so that unicode support can
> be hacked into it.
Good.
> There are a lot of patches from various places that
> need to be brought upstream; for instance, your tarball is probably
> subject to three critical security flaws (as is the version in git, at
> the moment), so please don't use it in public installations.
OK.
> Versions of GNU Enscript shipped by the distributions will usually have
> the security patches applied, of course. It is only because Enscript has
> been unmaintained for so long that there is so much work to do.
Right. I'm glad it's again under active maintenance.
--
Tapani Tarvainen