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

[Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com>]

Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2009-8
Severity: important


The dvipdfm binary 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

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).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

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

Versions of packages texlive-binaries depends on:
ii  ed                      1.4-3            The classic UNIX line editor
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.5-8        GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea5            2009-8           TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20100313-5   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler5             0.12.4-1.2       PDF rendering library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-8          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                 2:1.0.7-1        X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.0.5-2        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                 1:3.5.8-1        X11 pixmap library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  perl                    5.10.1-17        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  tex-common              2.08.1           common infrastructure for building
ii  texlive-common          2009-11          TeX Live: Base component
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

texlive-binaries recommends no packages.

texlive-binaries suggests no packages.

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