Looking for a ghostscript maintainer

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 17 15:19:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:59:41AM -0800, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've packaged ghostscript-8.15 and tested it (used gv on examples/*).
>
>Some points ...
>1.  This can remove the (last?) dependency on XFree86-lib-compat.
>    TeXmacs "needs" lib-compat, but it is probably due to ghostscript.
>    TeXmacs executable has no direct dependency on XFree86-lib-compat.
>
>2.  I have moved the cygwin specific readme into /usr/share/doc/Cygwin
>    (instead of /usr/doc/Cygwin)
>
>3.  gs-fonts-8.11 have been upgraded from 6.0
>
>4.  I have included the jpeg sources (as did gs-7.05)
>
>I have used Dario's cyg-pkg script and it has made the whole process
>fairly simple.  Thanks Dario.
>
>It is about 15MB in 4 files.  Is there some space where I can upload it
>to?

Usually package maintainers make it available for us to grab from somewhere
and Corinna or I put it on sourceware.  Do you have a URL for these packages?

cgf



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