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Bug#344436: automake1.4: Ships broken version of texinfo.tex

Subject: Bug#344436: automake1.4: Ships broken version of texinfo.tex
From: Frank Küster
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:40:13 +0100
Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist
retitle 344436 automake1.4: broken version of texinfo.tex creates PDF instead 
of DVI
thanks

Eric Dorland <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well there's a few potential problems with this. The automake1.4
> package is only provided for really old packages. I doubt updating the
> file to the current version would be compatible with such an old
> version of automake. I could remove the file, but I'm not sure there's
> a good point. If someone runs into this brokenness, the remedy is to
> upgrade. 

It's up to you to judge that.  However, I recommend to leave that bug
open, so that people can easily find out what's wrong.

If you want to check whether the other automake packages are also
affected:  Compare the statement where the \pdfoutput routine is used;
if it looks the same as in automake1.9, it is okay, otherwise it is more
or less affected (there's an "intermediate" version of that check around
that only gives a bug when used more than once).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer

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