Bug#72940: xdvi broken

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"HST" == H S Teoh <hsteoh@quickfur.yi.org> writes:


   HST> This has probably probably something to do with the recent
   HST> libc6/libdb2 breakage. But it might also be a problem with
   HST> the xdvi wrappers, as I also upgraded tetex last night
   HST> along with libc6. Since this renders xdvi completely
   HST> unusable (from the user's POV, that is), I'm setting the
   HST> severity as important.

It's a teTeX problem.  I have the old libc packages (they haven't
been built for PowerPC yet -- darn!  ;-) ) but just rebuilt
tetex-bin, and I'm seeing the same behavior H.S. Teoh reports.

   CMC

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