Bug#175239: efax no longer understands dvi2fax' output

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 06.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:

Hi all,

> more than a year ago you have reported a bug against the tetex-bin
> package. We apologize for not having answered so long.
> 
> Seb <seb@H-K.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Package: tetex-bin
> > Version: N/A; reported 2003-01-03
> 
> It would be really good to know the version - do you still know?
> Or, even better, can you try with the version you currently use,
> and tell us which one this is and whether it has the problem?
> 
> I have tried it with the version from unstable, and I couldn't
> reproduce the bug. If you like, I can recommend the backports
> available at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/woody/bunk-2.html.
> 
I believe I can:

(unstable chroot)

drachi:~# more truc.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Ce propos est sans objet.
\end{document}
drachi:~# latex truc
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(./truc.tex
<snip>
Output written on truc.dvi (1 page, 248 bytes).
Transcript written on truc.log.

dvi2fax doesn't work in my chroot, gs* is not installed².

drachi:[~] #cp sarge/root/truc.dvi .
drachi:[~] #dvi2fax truc
This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2004.04.06:1736' -> <texc.pro>. [1]
drachi:[~] #./efax -t T0123456789 truc-001.fax
./efax: Tue Apr  6 19:39:24 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
./efax: Tue Apr  6 19:39:24 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
efax: 39:24 compiled Apr  6 2004 19:31:38
efax: 39:24 Error: can't get format of truc-001.fax
efax: 39:24 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error)

after reverting back to the dvi2fax version given by the patch:

drachi:[~] #./efax -t T0123456789 truc-001.fax
./efax: Tue Apr  6 19:45:09 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
./efax: Tue Apr  6 19:45:09 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
efax: 45:09 compiled Apr  6 2004 19:31:38
efax: 45:09 opened /dev/modem
efax: 45:10 using Version 1.10 / 19.07.1999 "ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany)" "MicroLink 56k basic" "Version 1.10 / 19.07.1999" in class 2.0
efax: 45:11 dialing T0123456789
efax: 45:11 Error: terminating on signal 2
efax: 45:11 failed -> truc-001.fax
efax: 45:12 done, returning 5 (terminated by signal)

I've tried already to contact the packager of efax and the upstream
author of efax but got never a reply. Sorry for not reporting that.
efax is the version of sid, compiled on woody. dvi2fax the version of
woody.

Regards, Hilmar

² dvi2fax belongs to tetex-bin. Do we need a depend on gs? 
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