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Bug#611408: texi2dvi: swallow error messages



Package: texinfo
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal

This part of /usr/bin/texi2dvi

    if test $? != 0; then
      cat "$version_test_dir/txiversion.out"
      cat "$version_test_dir/txiversion.err" >&2
      error 1 "texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting."
    fi

is dead code. The whole script is run under "set -e", so if $TEX fails, the script will be termined with no error message shown.

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Jakub Wilk



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