Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> From f178a122f3805cbc23119b20c2144cf2a59bed3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 11:13:35 -0500
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add potrace.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (potrace): New variable.
>
> This part looks good to me, but...

Ok.

>
>>  gnu/packages/fontutils.scm |   28 ++++++++++++++
>>  gnu/packages/giflib.scm    |   90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> What about the giflib.scm changes?  Were they intended?

No, those changes were not intended.

> Perhaps giflib 5.x can be added in image.scm?

I was experimenting with the latest version of fontforge, which can use
giflib 5.x.  For the time being it can be left out.

An updated patch is attached.