Bug#320821: tetex-bin: Latex sometimes produces (useless) dvi files for broken tex files.
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-31
Severity: normal
If you run latex on a malformed tex file that consists of some text,
followed by a '\newpage' and optionally followed by some more text, then
latex will fail (obviously), but it will still produce a (very much broken)
dvi file. This file is useless and can produce strange results in scripts
like rubber.
Example file contents:
--------------------
Moo
\newpage
--------------------
Latex manages to produce a dvi file from this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.53 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.13.10 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-3 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-31 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.34-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.7-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-8 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.000 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-1 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends:
ii dialog 1.0-20050306-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
pn psutils <none> (no description available)
pn texi2html <none> (no description available)
ii whiptail 0.51.6-28 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
-- debconf information:
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/userperm: false
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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