Bug#1072743: texlive-extra-utils: pdfxup: --pages option fails if page range omits start or end of range

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

08.06.2024 10:25:00 Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mit.edu>:

> Yes, I'll be happy to discuss it with upstream.
> Should I CC you?  Or just update the Debian bug as needed?
> 
> -Sanjoy
> 
> On 2024-06-07 15:48, Preuße, Hilmar <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 07.06.2024 13:09, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> The man entry for pdfxup says that --pages can handle an omitted start
>>> or end of range, e.g. "--pages 2-" or "--pages -5".  However, using the
>>> following pdf file as a test (it's one page long) gives an error
>>> if either the start or end of the range is omitted.
>>> 
>> Are you willing to discuss this with the upstream author?
>> 
>> https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfxup
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>    Hilmar
>> -- 
>> sigfault
I'm one of the TL maintainers, so keeping the bug in Cc is sufficient. Thanks.

Hilmar