Re: Xdvi problem -- NMU soon?
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
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