Bug#186209: tetex-bin: xdvi anything.tex launches web browser on file:anything.tex

[Olivier Cappe <comcap@free.fr>]

[From Atsuhito Kohda, Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:43:25 +0900 (JST)]
> [...]
> I can't reproduce this bug.
> [...]

You must have an opened mozilla already, it prints the message on stderr but
also opens the browser :

<cappe@udon> ps uxf | grep mozilla
cappe    29762  0.0  0.1  1588  556 pts/0    S    11:22   0:00  |       \_ grep
mozilla

<cappe@udon> xdvi anything.tex
Can't open `/tsi/udon/cappe/anything.tex.dvi': No such file or directory

<cappe@udon> ps uxf | grep mozilla
cappe    29781  0.0  0.1  1588  556 pts/0    S    11:22   0:00  |       \_ grep
mozilla
cappe    29766 11.7  3.8 34032 19624 pts/0   S    11:22   0:01
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin file:anything.tex
cappe    29775  0.0  3.8 34032 19624 pts/0   S    11:22   0:00  \_
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin file:anything.tex
cappe    29776  0.0  3.8 34032 19624 pts/0   S    11:22   0:00      \_
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin file:anything.tex
cappe    29777  0.0  3.8 34032 19624 pts/0   S    11:22   0:00      \_
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin file:anything.tex
cappe    29778  0.0  3.8 34032 19624 pts/0   S    11:22   0:00      \_
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin file:anything.tex
cappe    29779  0.3  3.8 34032 19624 pts/0   S    11:22   0:00      \_
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin file:anything.tex

<cappe@udon> dpkg -l tetex-bin
ii  tetex-bin                     1.0.7+20011202-7.1            teTeX binary files

<cappe@udon> dpkg -l mozilla* | grep ^ii
ii  mozilla-browse 1.0.1-2        Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser
ii  mozilla-psm    1.0.1-2        Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Mana


Note that I have since then been contacted by Stefan Ulrich (developper?) who
seemed to be aware of the problem (see my answer
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186209). He wrote:

[Stefan Ulrich, Tue, 25 Mar 2003]
> That's a braindeadness in xdvi's MIME handling that will be fixed
> in the upcoming 22.7x. (I don't think it can be backported to
> 22.4x, since the changes are rather fundamental - e.g. 22.7x
> doesn't use libwww any more).
>
> However I'm still unsure whether to preserve the `send-to-browser'
> default for links to local files (not at startup, you'd need to
> explicitly click on them) for which no valid MIME type (mime.types)
> or application (mailcap) is found. (`Local files' being files with
> no URL scheme, just an ordinary path, or the `file://' URL scheme).
> [...]