> Is the other problem people are unhappy about solved? I.e., the problem > where files without paths that are managed by TeX's kpathsea system (and > stored in the texmf tree) were erroneosuly saved as being in the document > (relative) path (bug 4649)?
Yes. Richard has solved them but I am not sure if he has committed his patch. The patch itself is easy to fix but we have a long friendly discussion on how to fix it. Bo