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Bug#627521: marked as forwarded (texlive-binaries: dvipdfm requires DVI file to end in .dvi, breaking some usage)

Your message dated Sat, 21 May 2011 21:30:53 +0200
with message-id <87hb8nzw9e.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
has caused the   report #627521,
regarding texlive-binaries: dvipdfm requires DVI file to end in .dvi, breaking some usage
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) dvipdfmx@ktug.or.kr

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Dear dvipdfmx developers,

is this the right contact for a bug report?

Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com> wrote:

> The dvipdfm binary 

Couldn't care less if it was only in dvipdfm.  But actually it's a
symlink now, and dvipdfmx has the same bug:

> seems to require that the DVI file be named as
> *.dvi, as when passed a filename such as testdvi (an actually existing
> file in DVI format) or testdvi.tmp, it fails with the message
>
> ** ERROR ** Could not open specified DVI file: testdvi.dvi
> or
> ** ERROR ** Could not open specified DVI file: testdvi.tmp.dvi

I didn't test it with latest dvidfmx, texlive 2010 has dvipdfmx-20090708

> etc. I've rated this bug "important" because it may cause printing DVI files
> from Evince to fail with a cryptic error message in the GUI. While this clearly
> problem could be worked around within Evince by renaming temporary files to
> ensure a *.dvi extension, the real bug is in dvipdfm, which should accept the
> user's input as given, and not second-guess (at least not without checking for
> existance of the filename as literally given before altering it).

I agree with that.  Do you see any chance altering that?  

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Vorstand B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)

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