Bug#596702: /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults: Non-free and not packaged default viewers

[Braun Gábor <braung@renyi.hu>]

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2009-10
Severity: normal
File: /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults


In /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdoctkrc.defaults,
the default postscript viewer is ghostview,
which as far as I know is not packaged in Debian.
The default pdf viewer is the non-free acroread.
These are specified by the following lines:

# PostScript handling
PS_VIEWER=ghostview

# PDF handling
PDF_VIEWER=acroread
PDFPS_CONV=acroread
PDFPS_OPTS=-toPostScript -pairs

It would be better to specify free viewers
which are available in Debian.
E.g.

# PostScript handling
PS_VIEWER=gv

# PDF handling
PDF_VIEWER=xpdf
PDFPS_CONV=pdftops
PDFPS_OPTS=

or using a command which starts a suitable installed viewer:

# PostScript handling
PS_VIEWER=xdg-open

# PDF handling
PDF_VIEWER=xdg-open
PDFPS_CONV=pdf2ps
PDFPS_OPTS=

By the way, I also recommend changing the default HTML viewer
to senisble-browser, e.g replace the lines

# HTML handling
HTML_VIEWER=firefox

with

# HTML handling
HTML_VIEWER=sensible-browser

All the best,

	Gábor Braun

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.15.8.4       Debian package management system
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
ii  luatex                    0.60.2-1       next generation TeX engine
ii  mime-support              3.44-1         MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  tex-common                2.08           common infrastructure for building
ii  texlive-binaries          2009-7         Binaries for TeX Live
ii  texlive-common            2009-10        TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-doc-base          2009-2         TeX Live: TeX Live documentation

Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii  lmodern                       2.004.1-3  scalable PostScript and OpenType f

Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii  ghostscript [postscript- 8.71~dfsg2-6    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  okular [postscript-viewe 4:4.4.5-1       document viewer for KDE
ii  perl-tk                  1:804.028-1+b1  Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4+lenny2 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.15.8.4   Debian package management system
ii  ucf                           3.0016     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  tex-common                    2.08       common infrastructure for building

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing: