Bug#165436: tetex-bin: Declaring a shell rule for including graphics causes latex to report that the command failed
Atsuhito Kohda writes:
> From: Eric Anderson <anderse@hpl.hp.com>
> Subject: Bug#165436: tetex-bin: Declaring a shell rule for including graphics causes latex to report that the command failed
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:53:17 -0700
>
> > Changing the "rb" to "r" will make the popen work.
> >
> > Inspection of the source code found two locations where popen was used
> > in "rb" mode. The following patch fixes both of those. It is unclear
>
> My quick inspectation told me that these were already fixed
> in teTeX beta version. And new release will be soon, I expect.
Great, feel free to close out the bug when the new release happens; no
obvious need to make an interim debian release unless you happen to
anyway.
> BTW,
>
> > Package: tetex-bin
> > Version: 1.0.7+20011202-8.1
>
> what is this -8.1 version ? Is this simple typo ?
I tested out the fix before submitting the bug report; I chose to bump
the revision number that way so that if you release -9 that my system
should chose to upgrade to -9 rather than staying with my local fix.
-Eric
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