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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/patches/load-desc-failure.patch | 42 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/patches/load-desc-failure.patch b/debian/patches/load-desc-failure.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ebf05f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches/load-desc-failure.patch @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +From b30f08f4cd5791a9895df07c1acb061518c73cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> +Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:13:22 +0000 +Subject: Display more helpful output when failing to load a device + +If the device is known to be one of the devices in the groff binary package +rather than groff-base, refer the user to that. + +Forwarded: not-needed +Last-Update: 2023-07-08 + +Patch-Name: load-desc-failure.patch +--- + src/roff/groff/groff.cpp | 15 ++++++++++++--- + 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp b/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp +index 4eb732969..d4cb3c122 100644 +--- a/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp ++++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.cpp +@@ -378,9 +378,18 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) + } + font::set_unknown_desc_command_handler(handle_unknown_desc_command); + const char *desc = font::load_desc(); +- if (0 /* nullptr */ == desc) +- fatal("cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1'", +- device); ++ if (0 /* nullptr */ == desc) { ++ if (strcmp(device, "X100") == 0 || strcmp(device, "X100-12") == 0 || ++ strcmp(device, "X75") == 0 || strcmp(device, "X75-12") == 0 || ++ strcmp(device, "dvi") == 0 || strcmp(device, "html") == 0 || ++ strcmp(device, "lbp") == 0 || strcmp(device, "lj4") == 0) ++ fatal("cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1' " ++ "(try installing the 'groff' package?)", ++ device); ++ else ++ fatal("cannot load 'DESC' description file for device '%1'", ++ device); ++ } + if (need_postdriver && (0 /* nullptr */ == postdriver)) + fatal_with_file_and_line(desc, 0, "device description file missing" + " 'postpro' directive"); |