Bug#439877: texinfo: texi2pdf doesn't work if a ~ is in the file path

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Karl,

Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org> wrote:

> With texi2pdf :
>
> $ texi2dvi --pdf cinelerra_cv_manual_en.texi  
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  file:line:error style messages enabled.
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0'.
> <to be read again> 
>                    \penalty 
> ~->\penalty 
>             \@M \ 
> <*> /home/marillat/src/cinelerra-2.1.0~
>                                        svn20070827/doc/cinelerra_cv_manual_e...
> Please type another input file name: 
[...]
> Of course this work with no ~ in the path.

Do you have any idea how this could be fixed?  It's quite urgent, since
version numbers and hence directory names with ~ in them are now
becoming more and more common in Debian.

TIA, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)