Bug#506019: dvips: When I use \epsffile{"filename"} in a TeX file . . .
notfound 506019 2007.dfsg.2-4
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On 19.11.08 Alan McConnell (alan@patriot.net) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:53:56AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi Alan,
> > Here is the version information from Debian unstable:
> >
> > hille@kloetzer:~ $ dvips --version
> > dvips(k) 5.96.1
> > kpathsea version 3.5.6
> > Copyright (C) 2007 Radical Eye Software.
> >
> > Hence I have to assume, that it works fine in Debian unstable. Can
> > you confirm this or provide a minimal example so I can check this?
>
> As I reported, my friend, running Ubuntu, confirmed that
> dvips 5.96.1 works fine on her system.
>
I can confirm this too, with your example (well it was not minimal,
but good enough to show that Debian unstable does not has the
problem).
> > Else I must assume that the bug is fixed in unstable and would like
> > to close it.
>
> I have been 'eingeschuechtert' in Debian, to not do anything that
> isn't the "Debian way". But I would really like to have a working
> dvips. Can I simply grab e.g. my friend's dvips 5.96.1 and drop it
> into /usr/bin? Or is there a backport available? What do you
> recommend?
>
You can copy the dvips binary from unstable to /usr/local/bin (I
assume it is in your path) and use that one. I can't really say if it
will work: if some config files changed or all necessary libs are
there...I reall can't say.
As far as I can see, Norbert provided backports for TL 2007 for etch,
so you can already upgrade. These packages are not supported by the
BTS, but they may help you.
For now I mark the bug as notfound in unstable so we don't have to
care about it in the future.
H.
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