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Bug#506019: marked as done (dvips: When I use \epsffile{"filename"} in a TeX file, and I use a long, or)

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regarding dvips: When I use \epsffile{"filename"} in a TeX file, and I use a long, or
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Package: dvips
Severity: normal

(continuation of Subject!) .  .  . and I use a long file name,
when I run dvips against the .dvi file that TeX produces, I get a
message that the desired file can not be found.  That the file is
there can however be confirmed by running dvipdfm against the .dvi
file, and a satisfactory .pdf is produced.

My version of dvips is 5.95b; a colleague, using Ubuntu, and dvips
5.96.1, reports that her dvips works fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4

On 19.11.08 Alan McConnell (alan@patriot.net) wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:44:02PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > You can copy the dvips binary from unstable to /usr/local/bin (I
> 
> Can you give me a URL?  I have poked around
> 		http://packages.debian.org/unstable/
> but found nowhere where this particular binary can be found to
> download.
> 
It is in texlive-base-bin. I put the copy for unstable here:

http://home.amasol.de/~preusse/dvips.zip

As said, I can't really say if it'll work for you.

> > 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.
> 
> You have said that only security bugs are fixed in stable.  I
> believe that a very disconcerting, albeit not security-related, bug
> is present in this dvips problem.  What is the general recommended
> procedure for "non-cutting-edge" people who would nevertheless like
> their systems to run well?
> 
Well, if you really, really need a bleeding edge TeX system you have
the options to install the backports, upgrade to testing or use the
TL 2007 from upstream, i.e. not the version provided in Debian.

As I don't use TL very often, I can't really say how good the
backports are and how complicated it is to install TL from the CD on
a Debian system.

H.
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