Bug#377744: tetex-doc: more broken links

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 17:13 +0100, Bruno Gravato wrote:
>> I think this is related to this bug.
>> I've found some broken links in /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/index.html
>
> Thanks for your report. I have the impression that most (all) of these
> incorrect links can be fixed by removing the  
>
> <base href="file:///usr/share/texmf/doc/index.html">
>  
> from the header of this HTML file. One could also change it to 
>
> <base href="file:///usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc/index.html">

Why not simple remove it?

> Of course, the page is still largly useless with browsers like firefox
> that don't handle compressed files. :-(

For PDF, we could "solve" the problem by simply stopping to compress
them, as discussed recently on -devel.  Well, we could do the same for
dvi, too, without violating policy, but the increase in space is much
more pronounced:

$ lh latex2e.dvi.gz 
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 51K 1997-01-02 01:37 latex2e.dvi.gz
$ lh latex2e.dvi 
-rw-r--r--  1 frank frank 298K 2005-07-20 15:00 latex2e.dvi

especially for tetex-bin with its large proportion of dvi files. 

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