The following reply was made to PR xsrc/30520; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
To: Eike Dehling <e.e.dehling@student.utwente.nl>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: xsrc/30520
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:42:45 +0100

 On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:40:15AM +0200, Eike Dehling wrote:
 > Matthias Scheler wrote:
 > >Your editor apparently converted tabulators to spaces because that's
 > >how your patch ended up in the PR. An easy way to avoid that is
 > >using "uudecode" or MIME (at later one not for "send-pr" of course).
 > 
 > See below a cleaner and uuencoded patch.
 
 That's no normal uuencode format.
 
 > I must warn that it doesn't make xfree86 4.5 (HEAD) work fully, but it
 > works very well with 4.4. In 4.5 some extra bugs were introduced which i
 > couldn't fix yet, 
 
 I would happy to integrate more fixes later. And you should also submit
 them to the XFree86 project.
 
 > begin-base64 644 mga_patch.txt
 
 It should read:
 
 begin 444 tt
 M$5&SW/Y<Y[%)9K"2"8AC=4?Q'G]2+/T<.[=XS7:M5Y4)#VL[!K/JB:Z6H_LU
 MZ'EJ_I<V"X>5(!0"`&(4="O5JP"CZL2V^7-+`!1.Z2MSK(HOX;+-9D"K8$5Z
 [...]
 
 Please use a "standard" uuencode.
 
 	Thanks in advance
 
 -- 
 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/