No inverse searches for dvi files in ubuntu - please read!

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Oct 17 02:27:36 UTC 2008


On Saturday 04 October 2008 20:37, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Saturday 04 October 2008 12:00, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> > Il giorno sab, 04/10/2008 alle 09.48 -0400, Scott Kitterman ha scritto:
> > > I understand your frustration.  There just isn't a good answer that
> > > will
> > > satisfy everyone for Intrepid.  If we'd stayed with KDE 3 (as Debian
> > > is
> > > doing for Lenny), I think even more people would have been unhappy.
> >
> > I see that only two packages are missing in intrepid: kviewshell and
> > kdvi itself. I took a look at the build-depends of both of them and even
> > if I would have to check in detail, it seems to me that the only kde
> > dependency is kdelibs4-dev which is in intrepid, this is confirmed by
> > the fact that the two binary packages can be installed in intrepid (and
> > work well) without any other hardy dependency. If so perhaps these two
> > packages may be added back to intrepid without the whole kde.
> >
> > Vincenzo
>
> The problem is that they were part of the kdegraphics package and do not
> appear in the KDE 4 version of kdegraphics.  If there's a separate tarball
> available, then I suppose it might be possible.  I bit of Googling on my
> part didn't find one.
>
> Scott K

The story has a happy ending.  Today kdvi got back into the archive after I 
bent the old kdegraphics package from KDE3 into building it in a way that's 
compatible with the kdegraphics package from KDE4.

Scott K




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