Bug#516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not present

2009-02-27 Thread Markus Steinborn
Olivier Cappe wrote: [usefull information] Thank you for supplying these additional information. They will help us a lot. @Bernhard: What do you think, is it desired behavior that GNU gv uses XUSERFILESEARCHPATH if and only if ~/.gv is unusable? I would say no. The documentation is quite v

Bug#516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not present

2009-02-27 Thread Olivier Cappe
> [Markus Steinborn, 25 Feb 2009 (13:32)] > ... > Well, there is one other possibility: Could you please tell us whether > the environment variable XUSERFILESEARCHPATH set or not? > If ~/.gv is not usable (not sure what is the exact condition) and > XUSERFILESEARCHPATH is set, I believe it

Bug#516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not present

2009-02-25 Thread comcap
> What did the .Xresources file contain? $ cat ~/.Xresources ! Emacs Emacs*title: emacs Emacs*font: 8x13 Emacs*background: ivory Emacs*foreground: black Emacs*menubar*font: 8x13 Emacs*menubar*background: grey Emacs*menubar*foreground: black Emacs*reverseVideo: on ! Rxvt and Urxvt Rxvt*font: 8x13

Bug#516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not present

2009-02-25 Thread Markus Steinborn
Bernhard R. Link wrote: * com...@free.fr [090224 23:56]: What did the .Xresources file contain? I'm not that that into the internals, but I think that should only happen if it contains a value for GV.version. I'd say if such a file contains a GV.version then the user[1] wants to be notified

Bug#516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not present

2009-02-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* com...@free.fr [090224 23:56]: > When trying to use gv (freshly installed Lenny machine but existing > user account) I obtain > > gv Error: incompatible resources. > One of the files > /usr/share/gv/gv_system.ad > /home/user/.Xresources > belongs to an older version of gv and can not

Bug#516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not present

2009-02-24 Thread comcap
Package: gv Version: 1:3.6.5-2 Severity: normal When trying to use gv (freshly installed Lenny machine but existing user account) I obtain gv Error: incompatible resources. One of the files /usr/share/gv/gv_system.ad /home/user/.Xresources belongs to an older version of gv and can no