Bug#175422: tetex-bin: xdvi complains about perl and dies

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:00:33PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20021025-7
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/bin/xdvi
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the recent tetex-upgrade completely broke xdvi on my system:

D'oh, sorry!  My fault completely :-(

Change the line in xdvi:

  use 5.8;

to read:

  use 5.008;

instead.  ("use 5.8.0;" would work too, but the form "use 5.008;" is
preferred for compatibility reasons.)

Thanks,

   Julian

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