Bug#221793: tetex-bin: xdvi fails on compressed files in read-only directory

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

> bash-2.05a$ cd t2/
> bash-2.05a$ ../xdvi-pl t2/l2kurz.dvi.gz 
> Error in tempfile() using tetexXXXXXX.dvi: Parent directory (.) is not writable
>  at ../xdvi-pl line 68
> bash-2.05a$ echo $TMPDIR
>
> bash-2.05a$ 
> <snap>
>
> Tested with perl 5.6.1 from Debian stable.

Same here for me. I never noticed it, because with texdoc working fine I
never need to change in a directory under /usr/share/doc/texmf (except
for komabug.tex, but that's a different issue).

Does that mean we need a versioned dependency on perl? I would very much
dislike that. Especially because I was thinking about integrating my
backports into Adrian Bunks collection.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie