[arch-general] Inkscape maintainer MIA?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 15:47 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> Sascha Blank wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Arvid Picciani hat am Montag, den 14. Dezember 2009 um 23:13 Uhr (CET)
> > folgendes geschrieben:
> > 
> >> Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> >>> 0.47 fails to build with a poppler error :/
> >> and more. i'd be happy if someone can magically fix it. We're waiting 
> >> for a compiling one too.
> > 
> > A patch to make it compile with poppler-0.12.2 is available here:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/487038 (look for reply #4 on
> > that page).  I have checked myself that it works.
> > 
> 
> The comment two below that starts "From what I can tell, that patch is 
> horrendously incorrect".
> 
> I have never heard "horrendously incorrect" describe a good patch before...

I suppose the patch works, but according to the commenter he says the
way it works is actually a hack which may cause problems if 'certain
spectrums' are used (going from memory).