Samuel Bronson <[email protected]> writes: > Control: severity -1 important > Control: block -1 by 583188 > Control: tag -1 + confirmed > Control: found -1 texlive-binaries/2012.20120628-4 > > Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> writes: > >> Package: texlive-binaries >> Version: 2009-8 >> Severity: normal >> >> xdvi no longer uncompresses .gz and .bz2 files. For instance: >> >> $ xdvi /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/styles/preview.dvi.gz >> xdvi.bin: Fatal error: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/styles/preview.dvi.gz: Not >> a DVI file. > > Considering the number of .dvi.gz files shipped in Debian, I think this > is actually fairly important.
I don't think it is important, because it doesn't make much sense to type a commandline as the one above, when it is much easier to just type texdoc preview However, there _are_ issues with that: When "see" is used as the command for viewing in texdoc, which is the sensible default, this does not work because of a known bug. I'm not sure where, maybe it's only on a gnome desktop because I get View comand: (gnome-open "/tmp/texdoc.qrsrFG/preview.dvi"; rm -f "/tmp/texdoc.qrsrFG/preview.dvi"; rmdir /tmp/texdoc.qrsrFG) & ** (evince:8177): WARNING **: Error stating file '/tmp/texdoc.qrsrFG/preview.dvi': No such file or directory IIRC gnome-open returns before the viewer has opened the file. The other problem is that (at least on stable), no system-wide texdoc.cnf is installed, and if you create one at the place you'd expect, /etc/texmf/texdoc/texdoc.cnf, it is simply ignored. Anyway, I'd much rather have these issues fixed than patch xdvi's code. However, patches are of course welcome. Regards, Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
