Bug#372715: tetex-base: texdoctk database should honour compressed status of document

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Lutz Lehmann <llehmann@mathematik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> What remains of this discussion is a question of efficiency. For
> instance, it would be sufficient to note only the filename and not the
> path in the database. Then the direct lookup of the files could be
> removed in favor for the extended search method. In the current
> configuration, the latter method will always be called for compressed
> files, so efficiency is gained by omitting the first method. The
> database file will be smaller as well.

We are just using upstream's script and his database.  Due to our moving
of files, the database seems to be invalid (I didn't analyse that, just
believing what you're saying), but due to other clever things in the
script, it still works.

I see no reason in updating the database (because it already works), or
in dropping it, or whatever.  If you think the database can generally be
dropped (or rather the path information in it), this should be discussed
with upstream (Thomas Ruedas).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)