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evince package

evince truncates filenames with '#' from command line

Bug #572722 reported by David Gibson
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, evince is version 2.30.1-0ubuntu2. This is a regression from karmic.

If I attempt to open a pdf file with '#' in the file name from the command line (or from nautilus) evince starts, but does not open the file, giving a "No such file or directory message". An strace shows that it is attempting to lstat() the filename truncated at the first # character.

Opening the same file from File|Open within evince works correctly.

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Leo Arias (elopio) wrote :

I tried to reproduce your issue, but I couldn't. I could open a pdf with # in the name from command line, from nautilus and from File|Open.

My version:
evince:
  Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

It works fine here as well, do you have any others steps to reproduce the issue? Thanks.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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David Gibson (dwg) wrote :

Seems the problem was with the evince 2.30.1 deb. I'm not sure where that came from, given that 2.30.0 is current in lucid. I think I previously had lucid-proposed in my sources.list, so I guess it pulled a broken version in from there.

Sorry.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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