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

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:22:55AM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 30.01.19 00:23, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> I did some tests for #601237. In [1] I mentioned the document
> ifsym.ps.gz I used for testing, which is still zipped.

Hi Hilmar,

Interesting!  It turns out that on my system, PostScript files are
opened in Inkscape (due to bug#902141), and Inkscape gives the error
message:

ps2pdf failed:

Error: /undefinedfilename in (/tmp/texdoc.kS0Odf/ifsym.ps)

etc.

I set the system up to use gv instead, and was told:

gv: Cannot open file /tmp/texdoc.2e0sf6/ifsym.ps (No such file or directory)

So I guess the bug is still there....

Best wishes,

   Julian