Hi Sorry for the delay. I will test and patch it tonight.
On 2/21/07, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# I think dvipdfmx should not be released non-working in some parts of # the world severity 403323 serious tags 403323 patch thanks Jin-Hwan Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Dear dvipdfmx developers, dear dvipdfmx maintainer in Debian, >> >> in the last weeks, we found that dvipdfm(x) would segfault when >> launched >> in timezones with half-hour offset to UTC, and Mark Wicks wrote a >> patch. It would be nice if this could be applied to dvipdfmx, too. > > The topic had been discussed since Sep. 2005. The history of the patch > (for dvidpfmx not dvipdfm) can be found at > > http://cvs.ktug.or.kr/viewcvs/dvipdfmx/src/pdfdoc.c?view=log > > But the CVS tag was not applied until the version 20061211. Recently > (Dec 2006), > while discussing TeXLive 2007, the file was updated again. Ah, that's good. So TeXlive has a corrected version. Hm, I looked at the code and compared http://cvs.ktug.or.kr/viewcvs/dvipdfmx/src/pdfdoc.c?r1=1.42&r2=1.45 to http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/texlive/trunk/dpatch/texlive-bin/61_dvipdfm_timezone.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 The differences are: - different hierarchies of ifdef's; in dvipdfm, bd_time->tm_gmtoff takes precedence over timezone, in dvipdfmx it's the other way round. Maybe not very important - In the sprintf format string, you use %03ld and %02ld, which seems correct, whereas dvipdfm misses the 'l' length modifier. Hm, could this lead to errors? It seems to work... - To me, the computation of the timezone information in date_string looks wrong in dvipdfmx. Ah, no, it is correct. But (tz_offset/60) % 60 is easier to understand than (timezone % 3600) % 60 > I hope the maintainer in Debian would use the recent CVS code. Umh, no. Debian is in a freeze, we won't take new upstream versions at this time. I think the Yu Guanghui, the Debian maintainer for dvipdfmx, should take the patch used in dvipdfmx (this is the context diff format: http://cvs.ktug.or.kr/viewcvs/dvipdfmx/src/pdfdoc.c?r1=1.42&r2=1.45&diff_format=c ) and upload targetted at etch. Or do you want me to do an NMU? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
