bug in current dvips on amd?

[James R. Van Artsalen]

sam sirlin wrote:

> I've built current on an amd64 and have trouble with dvips from 
> tetex.  I use lettersize, but dvips puts a bogus a4size definition in 
> that breaks gs. This seems to be an old bug:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2002/debian-tetex-maint-200205/msg00067.html 
>
>
> Somehow the old bug seems more important for the amd64.
>
> Applying the patch fixed the problem for me.


This sounds like something for the dvips port maintainer and the dvips 
author/maintainer too, but not AMD64 specific.