Your message dated Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:09:40 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#506019: dvips: When I use \epsffile{"filename"} in a
TeX file . . .
has caused the Debian Bug report #506019,
regarding dvips: When I use \epsffile{"filename"} in a TeX file, and I use a
long, or
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dvips Severity: normal (continuation of Subject!) . . . and I use a long file name, when I run dvips against the .dvi file that TeX produces, I get a message that the desired file can not be found. That the file is there can however be confirmed by running dvipdfm against the .dvi file, and a satisfactory .pdf is produced. My version of dvips is 5.95b; a colleague, using Ubuntu, and dvips 5.96.1, reports that her dvips works fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4 On 19.11.08 Alan McConnell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:44:02PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Hi, > > You can copy the dvips binary from unstable to /usr/local/bin (I > > Can you give me a URL? I have poked around > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ > but found nowhere where this particular binary can be found to > download. > It is in texlive-base-bin. I put the copy for unstable here: http://home.amasol.de/~preusse/dvips.zip As said, I can't really say if it'll work for you. > > assume it is in your path) and use that one. I can't really say if it > > will work: if some config files changed or all necessary libs are > > there...I reall can't say. > > You have said that only security bugs are fixed in stable. I > believe that a very disconcerting, albeit not security-related, bug > is present in this dvips problem. What is the general recommended > procedure for "non-cutting-edge" people who would nevertheless like > their systems to run well? > Well, if you really, really need a bleeding edge TeX system you have the options to install the backports, upgrade to testing or use the TL 2007 from upstream, i.e. not the version provided in Debian. As I don't use TL very often, I can't really say how good the backports are and how complicated it is to install TL from the CD on a Debian system. H. -- sigmentation fault
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