[Groff] Re: Bug#216819: pic2graph included in groff is broken

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:20:03PM -0700, Alex Withers wrote:
> Package: groff
> Version: 1.18.1-11
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> --- pic2graph.old       2003-10-20 23:03:20.000000000 -0400
> +++ pic2graph   2003-10-20 23:03:43.000000000 -0400
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
>  # 2. Process through eqn and pic to emit troff markup.
>  # 3. Process through groff to emit Postscript.
>  # 4. Use convert(1) to crop the PostScript and turn it into a bitmap.
> -tmp=/usr/tmp/pic2graph-$$
> +tmp=/tmp/pic2graph-$$
>  trap "rm ${tmp}.*" 0 2 15 
>  (echo ".EQ"; echo $eqndelim; echo ".EN"; echo ".PS"; cat; echo ".PE") | \
>         groff -e -p $groffpic_opts -Tps >${tmp}.ps \

I've applied this to the Debian package, but I feel that /tmp is more
commonly available on Unix systems than /usr/tmp; the FHS renamed the
latter to /var/tmp, although it documents /var/tmp as for temporary
files that need to be preserved across reboots.

Perhaps this patch should be applied to official groff as well?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden