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

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Scott Kitterman ha scritto:
> 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
>
>   

This is a strong signal of the will to listen to user needs. I will be 
happy to keep on working on the new ubuntu - which is by far the most 
complete I've ever seen.

thanks

Vincenzo