Bug#182211: boxes.mp
On 21.08.03 Rainer Schöpf (schoepf@proteosys.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi,
> > Down here in the Debian Bug Tracking system we got an error message
> > about a buggy boxes.mp
> > (CTAN:systems/msdos/metapost/mpinputs/boxes.mp) on CTAN
> > (http://bugs.debian.org/182211). For any reason the version on my
> > private computer is more recent than the CTAN-version and doesn't
> > show up that bug. Could we get a short clarification about that?
>
> As far as I can see, the boxes.mp you mention is the same as in
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
Which one do you speak about?
> graphics/metapost/metapost.tar.gz (dated Nov 2002)
>
Sorry, didn't notice that there is still another distribution of
Metapost, which is precompressed. I just thought, that everything on
CTAN is uncompressed and I can retrieve it comprssed it if I want to.
So I just searched for boxes.mp...
> > drachi:[hille] >ll /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6848 May 22 1998
> > /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp
>
> Did you actually compare both versions with diff?
>
I compared my local /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/boxes.mp (from
teTeX 1.0.7) with that uncompressed from CTAN (which is identical to
the version contained in metapost.tar.gz) and the result I've posted
to the bug: http://bugs.debian.org/182211 .
> BTW: Why is debian concerned about a DOS version of metapost? :-)
>
Well this boxes.mp is the version, contained in teTeX 2.0.2.
Thanks for the answer,
H.
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