Bug#105830: texdoc should make all Debian TeX documentation available
Matthew Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 1.0.7+20001218-4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> TeTeX's texdoc program in tetex-bin and its TCL front end in the package
> tktexdoc are useful programs, but their usefulness is severely compromised by
> working only on documentation included with teTeX. TeTeX (the web2c
> underneath, actually) is designed to function well as the core of a larger TeX
> installation, for example a full Debian TeX installation that includes other
> TeX packages besides teTeX. So the suggestion to make texdoc aware of all
> Debian TeX documentation is not a misuse of texdoc.
texdoc is already automatically aware of all files beneath
/usr/share/doc/texmf/, including files at other places that have
symlinks in this directory pointing to them. So this isn't (and AFAIK
never was) a bug. I'll forward the suggestion regarding texdoctk to
its author in a separate mail, since this is by no means a
Debian-specific problem.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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