Re: [AUCTeX] Debian bug #311292 (preview.dtx)

[David Kastrup]

"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi devs,
>
> I was reviewing some old preview-latex bug reports (preview-latex was
> the Debian package for preview-latex before the AUCTeX and preview-latex
> merge: now it has been superseded by the Debian auctex package), and I
> found this one year old one:
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311292;repeatmerged=no>.
>
> The submitter provided a detailed analysis and a patch; I don't know
> if the patch was ever reported upstream, as I was not the Debian
> preview-latex maintainer and the bug is not marked as reported
> upstream.

It was not reported upstream and it would have saved me a bit of work
just recently.

> The bug has since been fixed in latest preview.dtx and I'm just
> gonna close it, but there is a little difference between the way I
> see it fixed in preview.dtx and the way the bug reporter patch
> suggested, which I think might be of some interest of preview.dtx
> developers.  Therefore, I would like to suggest you to review that
> patch, and to specifically pay attention to points 6 and 7 of the
> reporter analysis.

The analysis is correct and the current fix in preview-latex
consequently has the side effect described in connection with the
`delayed' option.  Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  I'll
fix this for the next release.  A pity that the preview-latex package
maintainer has not considered passing this excellent report upstream.

Anyway, I've seen that AUCTeX 11.83 has already been committed into
unstable.  Awesome!

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum