Bug#225687: tetex-bin: LaTeX segfaults when run by auctex on filename with space
Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> On Sun Jan 4 11:08:10 2004 -0500, Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
>
> F> - There is a bug in the src-specials implementation that leads to a
> F> segfault instead of a TeX error
>
> This is the bug I intended to describe.
>
> F> Both are in principle upstream issues
>
> How do you know the problem causing the segfault is in upstream code
> rather than in Debian code?
I don't know about all the history of Debian's tetex packages, but as
far as I can see it is like this:
- there are no patches in ./debian/ that patch latex source files
- pdflatex (which is patches a little) also segfaults
- pdfelatex and elatex don't.
Therefore I cannot imagine how this could be Debian specific.
Unfortunately I am not sure to whom this bug should be reported; in the
web2c changelogs there are only two entries regarding source specials,
both from Olaf Weber. However, I guess he hasn't invented them alone,
and it might be that the error also ocurrs on other systems using source
specials.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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