Bug#421633: texlive-base-bin: texdoctk uses non-free, unavailable viewers

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 421633 patch
thanks

Sven Joachim <sven_joachim@web.de> wrote:

> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007-5
> Severity: normal
>
> The following excerpt from /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults is not
> what I would expect on a Debian system:
>
[...]
> Naturally, neither acroread nor netscape are available on my system.
> Sensible defaults on Debian would probably xpdf and x-www-browser,
> respectively. 

Rather "see" than xpdf, so that mime preferences are respected.  

There's already a hunk for this in tetex-base/debian/patches/patch-deb

Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)