Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-07-11 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > You can't rely on the size of an int or a long int. If the code doesn't > cope with changes of size on those types, then it needs to use special > types harcoding the size. Thank you. I think that this may be the right sol

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-07-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Aaron M. Ucko a écrit : > > Indeed, though the problem's actually (as I suspected) a 64-bit > > cleanliness issue, which the attached patch addresses; could you > > please apply it when you get a chance? > > Hello Aaron, > > many thanks for this pat

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-07-10 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Aaron M. Ucko a écrit : > Indeed, though the problem's actually (as I suspected) a 64-bit > cleanliness issue, which the attached patch addresses; could you > please apply it when you get a chance? Hello Aaron, many thanks for this patch: it gives me a valuable hint for other issues related to 64

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-07-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Georges Khaznadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thank you for the hint about su -s, Thanks for applying that fix promptly. > about the font checksum issue, I suspect a bug in the upstream code Indeed, though the problem's actually (as I suspected) a 64-bit cleanliness issue, which the attached

Bug#375580:

2006-06-30 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
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Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-06-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> thank you for the hint about su -s, You're welcome. > Aaron, I would suggest you to keep a copy of this tree to try again with the > fixed wims package once Georges can provide it. In the mean time, starting I've backed it up into a tarball, though

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-06-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello Aaron, > > thank you for the hint about su -s, > about the font checksum issue, I suspect a bug in the upstream code > (goto jump directly into a nested construct). Georges, Do you have a fixed texgif to verify that ? > Please can you tr

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-06-28 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Thank you, Aaron. Aaron M. Ucko a écrit : > "Aaron M. Ucko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > tex2gif="su wims -s /bin/sh -c $HTML_DIR/bin/tex..gif" > > Oops, I accidentally permuted the arguments; that should be > > tex2gif="su -s /bin/sh wims -c $HTML_DIR/bin/tex..gif" > ^

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-06-28 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Hello Aaron, thank you for the hint about su -s, about the font checksum issue, I suspect a bug in the upstream code (goto jump directly into a nested construct). Please can you try an installation after deleting the tree /var/lib/wims ? I'll fix the issue with the shell. Best regards,

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-06-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
"Aaron M. Ucko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tex2gif="su wims -s /bin/sh -c $HTML_DIR/bin/tex..gif" Oops, I accidentally permuted the arguments; that should be tex2gif="su -s /bin/sh wims -c $HTML_DIR/bin/tex..gif" ^^ -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at

Bug#375580: wims: postinst fails in rendering fonts

2006-06-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: wims Version: 3.55-7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable dpkg fails to configure wims 3.55-7 on my system, with the postinst's font-generation step hitting a series of problems. The first problem I ran into was that $tex2gif would silently exit with status 1; I eventu