Bug#93699: tetex-doc should include ``Home'' version of Catalogue

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

submitter 93699 Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
tags 93699 + wontfix
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On 08.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi all,

> Are you the same Neil Conway who reproted a bug against the teTeX
> packages in Debian three years ago - it's archived at
> http://bugs.debian.org/93699 ? 
> 
Even that was not answered. Setting the submitter anyway.

> If I found you, you asked to include the "Home edition" of the TeX
> Catalogue into teTeX. You said that the reason for this was that you'd
> like to have links to the installed files on your disk, instead of CTAN
> links. However, in the current HOME edition, as found on
> http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/, there are no links to local files. I
> also cannot see how this could be done from the Catalogue's sources
> during installation
> 
Futher the Catalog delivered with teTeX refers to a lot of packages
not contained in teTeX. Yes, one could argue, that the links to
packages in teTeX should be locally the other could go outside.
I guess, we'de have to generate an Debian specific Catalogue, which
would be a huge amount of work.
Tagging that bug wontfix for now.

H.
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