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