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Re: questions regarding patch-tmp



From: Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>
Subject: Re: questions regarding patch-tmp
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:44:12 +0100

> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
> 
> > This is what we want:
> >
> >               ps->ysize = vsiz ;
> > +             *(ps->specdat = nextstring++) = '\0' ;
> >               canaddtopaper = 1 ;
> >
> > And this is what upstream has now:
> >
> >             ps->ysize = vsiz ;
> > +           ps->specdat = nextstring++ ;
> > +           *(ps->specdat) = 0 ;
> >             canaddtopaper = 1 ;
> >
> > It's o.k. to just keep it like that, right?
> 
> I think so.

Me too.  As you might know, this was forwarded to upstream 
by Hilmar and we got a reply;

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#147976: (fwd) Re: [tex-k] (fwd) Dvips has a string allocation bug in papersize handling (patch included)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:48:47 +0200

> I've got an response from Tomas. I'm just sending it back to the
> DBTS.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "Tomas G. Rokicki" <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU> -----
> 
> From: "Tomas G. Rokicki" <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
> To: hille42@web.de
> Subject: Re: [tex-k] (fwd) Dvips has a string allocation bug in papersize handling (patch included)
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:09:10 -0700
> Message-Id: <E19Qs34-0005ou-BC@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
> 
> Wow, that's impressive.  I'll fix this, and a number of other bugs, probably
> this weekend, and put a new version of dvips into the perforce repository
> (after which it will trickle out with the next release).  Thanks for the
> excellent work!
> 
> -tom
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

so there would be no problem.

> > * texmf.in: Why do we allow searches for files on disk instead of
> >   restricting searches to ls-R, as in upstream? This would speed up
> >   searching, and properly installed packages should regenerate ls-R
> >   anyway.
> 
> The Debian packages do that? Ugh...

Do you mean 

+TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

should be something like

+TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

??  Well, my fingers had moved without my permission...

Does !!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL, which might not exist in normal cases
and only there for backward compatibility, cause no problem?

Regards,			2004-2-24(Tue)

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima



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