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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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