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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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