maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 238629] editors/libreoffice does NOT need gpatch

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Bug 238629: editors/libreoffice does NOT need gpatch
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238629



--- Description ---
Long ago we were allowing OpenOffice to build its own versions of various
software packages -- instead of making it use what FreeBSD's ports provided --
and it needed patch(1) to do the building.

We no longer do that in the libreoffice port -- and, hopefully -- not in
OpenOffice either.

But we still have the gpatch dependency -- and the upstream still have a
configure-script verify, that the patch(1) is GNU-compatible (only on SunOS,
FreeBSD, and Darwin, though).

It is not needed however -- which is especially important now, when gpatch is
found to have (yet unfixed) security holes
(https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/791841a3-d484-4878-8909-92ef9ce424f4.html).