Bug#591781: texlive-base: texdoc barfs on gzipped files under gnome

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:16:46PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 05.08.10 16:41, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> This seems to be similar to #601237. Is the issue still present?
> 
> Hilmar

Hi Hilmar,

I'm not sure if it's present any more, because I can't find a single
.pdf.gz file in /usr/share/doc/texlive* - all of the pdf files are
unzipped, so there is no need for texdoc to unzip them.

I tried zipping it and it still works, though I'm using xdg-open
rather than gnome-open (as I'm running under XFCE now rather than
Gnome).

So I guess closing this bug report is probably OK?

Best wishes,

   Julian

> > Running  texdoc pgf  opens an evince window, but evince complains that
> > there is No such file or directory.
> > 
> > I have tracked down the problem: view.tlu runs the command (split over
> > two lines; the Xb... is of course a unique directory name):
> > 
> > (gnome-open "/tmp/texdoc.Xbpoq3/pgfmanual.pdf"; rm -f
> > "/tmp/texdoc.Xbpoq3/pgfmanual.pdf"; rmdir /tmp/texdoc.Xbpoq3) &
> > 
> > What happens is that gnome-open is called, but gnome-open disconnects
> > from the running process very quickly, so that by the time evince
> > fires up, the file and directory have already been deleted.
> > 
> > I am unsure what the correct solution would be.  I think that the
> > simplest might be to have a "wait" command after the file opening
> > command; the presence of the backgrounding process should alleviate
> > problems this causes.