I just want to report that this bug is solved in current advi packages. Looks like upstream did his homework: from changelog.Debian: * Update to CVS HEAD as of 20060103,... Many thanks to the package maintainer. -- Meik Hellmund Institut fuer Mathematik, Uni Leipzig e-mail: Meik.Hellmund@math.uni-leipzig.de http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund