Bug#658983: texinfo: Allow texi2dvi to pass the shell-escape option to the TeX processor

[Hsiu-Khuern Tang <tangoh@gmail.com>]

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-8
Severity: wishlist

Dear Debian TeX Maintainers,

Please allow texi2dvi to pass the shell-escape option to tex,
pdflatex, etc.  See this thread (with patch):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2010-09/msg00000.html

Patch here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2010-09/txtpuB1RE86dV.txt


Thanks!
- Hsiu-Khuern.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (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/bash

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
hi  libc6                         2.13-21    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

texinfo recommends no packages.

Versions of packages texinfo suggests:
pn  texinfo-doc-nonfree           <none>     (no description available)
hi  texlive-base                  2009-15    TeX Live: Essential programs and f
pn  texlive-generic-recommended   <none>     (no description available)
hi  texlive-latex-base            2009-8     TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

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