Bug#306830: Broken links because of gzipped files

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 23.06.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

Hi *

> Thank you, I have installed the patch.  Did you also check
> helpindex.html?
> 
Nope, sorry!

> > Further I've noticed that we ship a lot of files from the beamer
> > class doc sitting in /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/beamer/, meanwhile
> > the latex-beamer package itself ships them in
> > /usr/share/doc/latex-beamer. I guess one of it should be removed.
> 
> They should already be removed, since revision 1.1.2.7 of
> debian/rules.d/install.mk which should have been used for
> tetex-base_3.0-2 (at least it is tagged accordingly):
> 
> +beamer-dirs = tex/latex/beamer
> +remove-dirs = $(lmdirs) $(preview-latex-dirs) $(pgf-dirs) $(xcolor-dirs) $(texinfo-dirs) $(beamer-dirs)
> 
> +	# remove files that are in other packages:
> +	# lmodern, preview-latex, pgf, xcolor, texinfo
> +	for dir in $(remove-dirs); do rm -rf $(txmfdir)/$$dir; done
> 
hille@preusse:~/teTeX-3.0/built$ dpkg-deb -c tetex-doc_3.0-3_all.deb | grep beamer|wc
     51     306    6122

Hmm. I guess you spoke about the package itself, meanwhile I speak
about the docs of the beamer package.

> > We should them further tell to put a soft link from
> > /usr/share/doc/latex-beamer to /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex to make
> > sure the installed doc is seen by texdoc(tk).
> 
> Will you submit a bug report?
> 
It would have to conflict with all versions between
2.99.7.20041225-beta-1 and the tetex-doc version, which doesn't
contain the beamer doc any more. How do I implement that?

Regards,
  Hilmar
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