Re: Xdvi problem -- NMU soon?

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Christoph Martin writes:
 > C.M. Connelly writes:
 >  > 
 >  > Okay, we now have four bugs filed against tetex-bin because of the
 >  > Xdvi.bin/Xdvi.real problem.
 >  > 
 >  > Is someone planning on fixing the problem and uploading the fixed
 >  > package soon?  Should I do it?  (Downside is that I have a PowerPC
 >  > machine and thus the problem won't be fixed for i386 until an
 >  > autobuilder rebuilds the package.)
 >  > 
 >  > Let's make a move, here -- I can only keep resending that merge
 >  > message so many times.  ;-)
 >  > 
 > 
 > I looked into this. But the solution is not to patch xdvi-sh to call
 > xdvi.real instead of xdvi.bin. There seams to be something wrong with
 > the alternatives.
 > 

I can't reproduce the problem.

Somehow the alternative for xdvi.bin went from auto to manual and the
link in /usr/bin/ was missing. One user who reported to me, could fix
it with dpkg-reconfigure.

Christoph