Bug#177040: dvips: dvips produces invalid postscript (according to gv)

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

reassign 177040 dvipsk-ja
severity 177040 grave
thanks

From: "Alexa M. Robinson" <amr99r@wimsey.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Bug#177040: dvips: dvips produces invalid postscript (according to gv)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:26:27 +0000

> dvips produces invalid postscript (according to gv)
> 
> This bug may be related to bug #63797, but I don't think it's the same
> bug.

No, this isn' the same bug.

Quick fix is to move /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj to 
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.cnf and run "update-texmf"
as far as I can guess now.

> Then dvips
> >>>>>
> bash-2.05b$ dvips latex_test.dvi 
> This is dvips(k) 5.90a p1.5g Copyright 1996-2002 ASCII
> Corp.(www-ptex@ascii.co.jp) based on dvips(k) 5.90a Copyright 2002
> Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com)

This dvips is not of tetex-bin but of dvipsk-ja.

And with my quick investigation, dvipsk-ja handled
70dvipsj.cnf in a wrong way in its postinst.

    if [ ! -f /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj ] ; then
      if [ -f /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.bak ] ; then
        mv -f /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.bak /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj
                                                                 ^^^^^^^^

this should be 

mv -f /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.bak /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.cnf

at least.

More fundamentally, in postinst, it should do only

    if [ ! -f /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.cnf ] ; then
        cat > /etc/texmf/texmf.d/70dvipsj.cnf <<'EOF'
%
% Japanized DviPS
%
TEXPSHEADERS.dvips = .;$TEXMF/{dvipsj,dvips,pdftex,tex,fonts/type1}//
TEXCONFIG.dvips = .;$TEXMF/{dvipsj,dvips}//
EOF
    fi

and fiddling with old 70dvipsj* and 70DviPSJ should be done 
in preinst.

Thanks,				2003-1-17(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.