Re: [Pkg-grass-general] GRASS package testing
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:09 +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > > => grass pkg:
> > > startup -> help
> > > Error while opening file:
> > > "/usr/lib/grass/docs/html/helptext.html"!
> > >
> > > (add patch to include note telling user to install grass-doc pkg?
> > > can you include a helptext.txt stating that & overwrite it if
> > > grass-doc is installed? if not always include helptext.html with
> > > an added note at the top??)
> > >
> > > It's a bad look for new users.
> >
> > Two different packages can't contain the same file. Since this file
> > was moved from docs/start to the docs/html dir this has made this
> > trickier. Init.sh or something or other will have to be patched to
> > look for the file in a different location.
>
>
> Startup GUI, line 529: lib/init/gis_set.tcl
>
> what about just putting a copy of helptext.html in /usr/lib/grass/docs
> as part of the main package? (then edit gis_set.tcl)
>
> This version could have a big message at the top of the page:
>
> <h3>GRASS documentation is contained in the grass-doc package</h3>
>
> It's small enough that the file size duplication would be outweighed by
> its usefulness.
>
> Perhaps do the same with the main d.m "Help" page too:
> /usr/lib/grass/docs/html/index.html
>
Ok, I'll do something along these lines.
>
> Any thoughts on including the Programmer's manual with the grass-doc
> package? (make htmldocs) too big?
One big problem with these docs ATM(or at least the last time I ran
'make htmldocs') is that they don't get cleaned. So dpkg-buildpackage
quits when creating the .diff file.
Steve
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