Bug 9252

An updated latex2html package has been submitted to updates_testing to fix this issue.

Assignee: boklm => qa-bugs

Could you give advisory & srpm/rpm list for QA please Nicolas

Example here:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy#Maintainer_.28or_any_interested_packager.29

Thanks

Please reassign to QA when you've had a chance to look at this, thanks.

Assignee: qa-bugs => boklm

Advisory text:
latex2html was not working because of an incompatibility with recent versions
of Perl. This update fix the issue.

Package to test:
latex2html-2008-5.mga2.noarch.rpm

Source package:
latex2html-2008-5.mga2.src.rpm

Assignee: boklm => qa-bugs

No man page but details here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/latex2html

Testing using an example on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Mathematical_example

saved as doc.tex

Before
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$ latex2html -local_icons doc.tex
bash: latex2html: command not found
[clairer@mega latex2html]$ latex2html -local_icons doc.tex
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/latex2html line 517.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/latex2html line 2089.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/latex2html line 9090.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
$* is no longer supported at /usr/bin/latex2html line 10591.
Error: No such image type ''.
       This installation supports (first is default):

After
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$ latex2html -local_icons doc.tex
Error: No such image type ''.
       This installation supports (first is default):

It doesn't output any html

$ latex2html -help
Error: No such image type ''.
       This installation supports (first is default):

Not sure what to make of this, it appears still broken.

Claire:

That looks more like vanilla TeX than LaTeX.  I know I've got my masters in analytical chemistry in LaTeX format somewhere--I may need to find a nifty way to copy it from my old Amiga as it's got formulas, subheadings, ToC, graphics, etc.

CC: (none) => wrw105

After some quick testing, I"m not getting the errors Claire got at first, but am also getting the no such image type errors with a LaTeX file that processes normally to a dvi.  I've started perusing the documentation that's sent as a pdf in the package, will check more in a few hours.

For the packager:

http://www.mail-archive.com/latex2html@tug.org/msg01811.html

relevant maillist entry to our problem.

Thanks for your work on this Bill.

I get the same errors on i586 and x86_64 with any switch I've tried.
eg. latex2html -help

$ latex2html -local_icons /usr/share/doc/latex2html-2008/example/report.tex
Error: No such image type ''.
       This installation supports (first is default):


Sounds like it might be a missing BuildRequire

Whiteboard: feedback => has_procedure feedback

Assigning Nicolas until this is ready

Please reassign to QA when you've had a chance to take a look

Thanks!

CC: (none) => qa-bugs
Assignee: qa-bugs => boklm
Whiteboard: has_procedure feedback => has_procedure

Mageia 2 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''22 November''. Mageia 2 is no
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or
bug fix updates. As a result, as this bug should be fixed in mga3, an as this update was validated we are closing it.

--
The Mageia Bugsquad

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED