Re: libstdc++/8516 (broken links in libstdc++ html documentation)
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:27:16AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > >Description:
> > running htdig on the installed set of html docs shows some
> > broken/non-existing links:
>
> The files lwg-active.html and lwg-defects.html are copied verbatim from
> the standard committee site. As most of the links in those pages are
> relative links to other pages on that site, which aren't included in
> libstdc++, they don't work.
And in fact this is documented in ext/howto.html, which is the entry point
to the LWG files.
> The other broken links all appear to be for .txt files, which are included
> with the sources. They should be ok, but it looks like they've not been
> included with the HTML files.
I checked the libstdc++5-doc package just now. They have been included,
but (in too-stringent accordance with Debian policy regarding /usr/share/doc
files) they've been gzipped. Not Our Problem. :-)
Phil
--
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002
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