Your message dated Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:10:07 +0200 with message-id <[🔎] 874pijy1hc.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch> has caused the Debian Bug report #439877, regarding texinfo: texi2pdf doesn't work if a ~ is in the file path to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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- To: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
- Cc: 439877-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, 439877@bugs.debian.org, Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#439877: texinfo: texi2pdf doesn't work if a ~ is in the file path
- From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:10:07 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 874pijy1hc.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070828073929.20849.77349.reportbug@christian.marillat.net> (Christian Marillat's message of "Tue\, 28 Aug 2007 09\:39\:29 +0200")
- References: <[🔎] 20070828073929.20849.77349.reportbug@christian.marillat.net>
Hi Karl, Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> wrote: > With texi2pdf : > > $ texi2dvi --pdf cinelerra_cv_manual_en.texi > This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) > file:line:error style messages enabled. > %&-line parsing enabled. > entering extended mode > ! I can't find file /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0'. > <to be read again> > \penalty > ~->\penalty > \@M \ > <*> /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0~ > svn20070827/doc/cinelerra_cv_manual_e... > Please type another input file name: [...] > Of course this work with no ~ in the path. Do you have any idea how this could be fixed? It's quite urgent, since version numbers and hence directory names with ~ in them are now becoming more and more common in Debian. TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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