Re: [bug-enscript] ISO-8859-1[3456] support

[Tapani Tarvainen]

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