Bug#675109: evince: DVI support broken

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 675109 libkpathsea6
found 675109 2012.20120516-1
retitle 675109 libkpathsea6 dropped kpse_cnf_get symbol
severity 675109 grave
affects 675109 evince
thanks

On 30.05.2012 00:40, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Package: evince
> Version: 3.4.0-2
> Severity: important
> 
> When I try to open a DVI file with evince, it says there is no support for that format. But I used to open DVI files before the upgrade to evince 3.4
> 
> The terminal output is as follows:
> 
> $ evince fsp2012.dvi
> 
> (evince:27058): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: /usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libdvidocument.so: undefined symbol: kpse_cnf_get
> 
> (evince:27058): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'dvidocument' since file '/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libdvidocument.so' cannot be read.
> 
> (evince:27058): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: /usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libdvidocument.so: undefined symbol: kpse_cnf_get
> 
> (evince:27058): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend 'dvidocument' since file '/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/libdvidocument.so' cannot be read.
> 
> I was suspicious of a problem with libkpathsea6 dropping that kpse_cnf_get symbol, so I though a rebuild of evince could fix the problem, but it did not.
> 
> It seems like kpse_cnf_get does not exist (anymore?) in libkpathsea6, but
> nonetheless evince still builds fine and ends up with libdvidocument.so using
> kpse_cnf_get ...

Norbert,
objdump -tT /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6 | grep kpse_cnf_get
indeed does not list kpse_cnf_get for libkpathsea6_2012.20120516-1.
It looks like
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673016
hasn't been fixed properly.

Would you please have another look to see what's going wrong with
libkpathsea6.

Thanks,
Michael

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