reassign 590785 postscript-viewer thanks This cannot be considered a maxima bug as long as we do not have the facility existing in Debian (at the moment) to generalize what maxima is currently doing.
Take care, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > reopen 590785 > thanks > > Debian Edu list in CC because it concerned the size of theri release DVD] > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:21:42PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> Alas, this cannot be done > > I'm sorry, I can not accept a "cannot be done", right? > >> as maxima hardcodes one viewer command into >> its tcl script, > > There is no reason to > a) not patch this script > b) foreward the issue to upstream > >> and there is no generic command provided by packaged >> providing the postscript-viewer pseudo package, AFAICT. >> >> application/postscript "gv -safer %s" > > That's no excuse. The bug should stay open to inform people about a > problem and I rather think we should fix it from the other side and care > for a propper postscript-viewer command (analogous to editor and view - > or even enhance view). > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > >> Take care, >> >> Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: >> >> > Package: maxima >> > Severity: minor >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > maxima recommends gv explicitely as pdf-viewer or postscript-viewer. >> > Please use >> > >> > pdf-viewer | gv or >> > postscript-viewer | gv >> > >> > depending of what type of documents will be really viewed. >> > >> > The rationale is that people who install maxima will currently be forced >> > to install gv even if they do not want to. For instance if you install >> > the education-mathematics package of Debian Edu which in principle >> > prefers okular you can not avoid installing gv without extra effort and >> > users become confused by more pdf-viewers / postscript-viewers than >> > needed. >> > >> > Kind regards >> > >> > Andreas. >> > >> > -- System Information: >> > Debian Release: squeeze/sid >> > APT prefers stable >> > APT policy: (500, 'stable') >> > Architecture: i386 (i686) >> > >> > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-xenU (SMP w/1 CPU core) >> > Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) >> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org >> ========================================================================== >> "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah >> > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
