Bug#591781: texlive-base: texdoc barfs on gzipped files under gnome
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:27:51PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 30.01.19 12:52, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> Hi Julian,
>
> > 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....
> >
> OK, I always just tried to reproduce on unstable w/o GNOME, as I don't
> have an unstable system running GNOME. Today I tried on stable/GNOME and
> could reproduce the issue. Do you run GNOME/unstable?
I'm running XFCE/testing, hence using xdg-open rather than
gnome-open. But the result is the same.
> The code you mentioned initially now looks completely different. The
> view.tlu did not change much between stable and unstable. When comparing
> the code between unstable & git I don't see essential changes, so I'd
> suspect that the issue is also available in git. Further I don't see git
> commits for this topic in the last 1/2 year.
Yes, indeed. I haven't looked at the view.tlu code recently, but it
still appears to be texdoc which is doing the unzipping.
> @Norbert: are you aware of the issue? Should we simply open a new issue
> for investigation?
Best wishes,
Julian
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