Re: on TeXlive
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Die, 21 Mär 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> >> >> /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-ja/japanese/lshort-japanese/00README
>> >> >> /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/japanese/lshort-japanese/jlshort.pdf.gz
>> >> >
>> You are right, that's going to be a problem. But I think it's a
>> problem
>> that we should try to solve properly, not by making all documentation
>> from texlive unavailable to texdoc.
>>
>> I have no time to think about it now, but maybe we can install
>> documentation in TEXMFDIST?
>
>
> It is already there. I have a link
> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc -> ../doc/texlive-doc
>
> BUT: Unfortunately that stupid texdoc does NOT work with links. I got
> already a bug report. The problem is that texdoc makes a find -type f,
> which just breaks. Bad.
You should apply (at least parts of)
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-bin/trunk/debian/patches/patch-texdoc?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
which contains, among other things, e.g. secure tempfiles,
- find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -type f -print |
+ find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -follow -type f -print |
This has been needed for long, since according to policy, teTeX installs
its documentation into /usr/share/doc/texmf and has a symlink
/usr/share/texmf/doc -> ../doc/texmf.
>> > Well, someone who wants to rebuild the documentation. And didn'T we
>> > agree that the sources for docs should be available.
>>
>> Yes, of course - but only in the source package IMO.
>
> You mean that we do not ship the original .tex files in the binary deb.
> Hmm. Maybe I can convince texlive upstream to do this change, but I am
> not sure, and I don't want to sort it out by hand. Especially since some
> source files of the documentation are also source files of the sty/tex
> files etc.
Yes, we shouldn't try to do this upstream task, at least not with *.tex
files. But filtering tar.gz files doesn't require human thinking, and I
think we should do it.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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