Package: advi
Version: 1.6.0-3
Severity: important
Running the demos (which are .gz-compressed) the first output is
Warning: Setting policy to -exec
and all actions are performed. Manually uncompressing all files and
running advi instead, the user is asked for each external programm
instead. This behaviour is
a) inconsistent and
b) for security reasons the user should always be asked.
So either advi should be switched to -exec by default (not
recommended) or zadvi should also ask.
Note that the man page states:
-ask Ask mode: launching an external application requires
confirmation (this is the default)
(but then the man page does not mention zadvi)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages advi depends on:
ii gs 8.01-5 Transitional package
ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.01-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libtiff4 3.6.1-3 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-1 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-23 The teTeX binary files
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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