Bug#347992: [SPAM?]: Bug#347992: tetex-base: mptopdf fails when src file is not in current dir

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 16.01.06 Sanjoy Mahajan (sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Hans Hagen wrote to me to say that he's applied the patch to his
>> version (copy of my reply below).  It was a bad design decision for
>> Tex and friends to leave output files in the current directory
>> rather than in the directory of the source file.
>> 
> Hmm, fine. So he acknowledged the patch. I myself don't speak perl and
> are not able to do so.

The patch looks okay, although the original code could use some
clarifying comments (and perhaps some better error handling...).

And I think as long as we restrict ourselved to executables, we can
start applying patches to tetex-base as well.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)