Bug#301156: tetex-bin: texdoc will not search

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Eythan Weg <weg@indiscrete.org> wrote:

> Texdoc will not search effectively with say
>        texdoc -s pdftex
> I had to patch with
>
> --- /usr/bin/texdoc	2005-03-23 19:01:08.000000000 -0500
> +++ /usr/bin/texdoc.orig	2005-03-17 09:47:45.000000000 -0500
> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
>  do
>    case $mode in
>      search)
> -      find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -follow  -type f -print |
> +      find `kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc' | tr : ' '` -type f -print |
>          egrep $name
>        continue
>        ;;
>
>
> because in debian the main doc directory is a 
> symbolic link.

Thanks for spotting this.  An alternative would be to change the patch
to /usr/share/doc/texmf, but I think follow is better: There are some
add-on packages that install their documentation in
/usr/share/doc/$package with symlinks in
/usr/share/doc/texmf/somewhere. 


Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer