Bug#211899: tetex-base: xdvi passes wrong filename from /href and causes segmentation faul on exit

[Stefan Ulrich <stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk>]

Alexander Wagner <Alexander.Wagner@ndsu.nodak.edu> writes:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2.0.2-4.2
> Severity: important

> In tex I create a special to use xdvi to show movies:
> \special{html:<a href=animation.mpg>}movie\special{html:</a>}
> It will call the application indicated in /etc/mailcap (xine in my case) but
> with the wrong argument. Instead of calling it with animation.mpg it 
> will call
> it with something like: /tmp/xdvi-IYEGTK
> This file in /tmp will be an empty file. For each new animation I want 
> to show
> it creates a new (empty) file. When I press q in xdvi it will fail to 
> exit and
> when I close the window many lines of text of the form
> xdvik: caught segmentation fault - trying to clean up and aborting ...

This sounds like a duplicate of:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=111983

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The bug has been fixed in 22.40w; see also:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=715793&group_id=23164&atid=377580

Best,
Stefan