Bug#240366: tetex-bin: cannot view foo.dvi.gz in read-only directory

[Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-5.1
Severity: normal


Running xdvi on the tetex documentation fails because the directory is
read-only:

: nr@labrador 6445 ; xdvi natbib.dvi.gz 
Error in tempfile() using tetexXXXXXX.dvi: Parent directory (.) is not writable
 at /usr/bin/xdvi line 68
: nr@labrador 6446 ;

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (ignored: LC_ALL set to POSIX)

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                    1.3.22        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                2.6.2         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                       1.10.18       Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                         0.2-20        The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                      2.3.2.ds1-11  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                    1:3.3.3-0pre3 GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea3               2.0.2-5.1     path search library for teTeX (run
ii  libpng12-0                 1.2.5.0-4     PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++5                 1:3.3.3-0pre3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwww0                    5.4.0-9       The W3C WWW library
ii  libxaw7                    4.2.1-12.1    X Athena widget set library
ii  mime-support               3.25-1        MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  perl                       5.8.2-2       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  t1lib1                     1.3.1-9       Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  tetex-base                 2.0.2-5.1     Basic library files of teTeX
ii  xlibs                      4.2.1-12.1    X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.1-3     compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
  tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
  tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
* tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: local
  tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true