[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug report on dvipost: dvipost crashes with exit status 139

Per Olofsson pelle at dsv.su.se
Tue Jul 2 09:46:54 UTC 2013


2013-07-01 16:36, Nick Andrik skrev:
> 2013/7/1 Per Olofsson<pelle at dsv.su.se>:
>> >  Does anybody still use dvi files? Can't we just remove dvipost?
> I believe there are people preparing scientific papers in the old way:
> latex
> bibtex
> latex
> latex
> dvi2ps
> ps2pdf
>
> I guess this is for a couple of reasons, which would include:
> - Old tutorials that are still around
> - Makefiles that created once and never been updated since
>
> I'm not sure if anyone is using dvipost though

Looking at the popcon stats, there are 500 installs and 50 votes:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=dvipost

So maybe a few people are using it, after all. The question is whether 
we should nudge them to switch to pdflatex by removing dvipost.

-- 
Pelle



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