Bug#400058: texdoctk does not find any documentation

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

clone 400058 -1
reassign -1 texlive-base-bin
thanks

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

> * Use hardcoded /usr/share/texmf-tetex or /usr/share/texmf-texlive in
> texdoctk in tetex and texlive packages, respectively.
>
> * make texdoctk support a array of directories to search and populate
> that tree by parsing kpsewhich's output properly.

Actually there's a third possibility:

* make texdoctk support two texmfdist trees, hardcoded:

@@ -32,8 +51,8 @@
 my $srchflag=0;
 my $tmpfno;
 # system variables
-my ($texmfmain,$texmfdist,$texmfdoc,$texmflocal,$texmfhome,
-    $texdocpath,$distdocpath,$docdocpath,$localdocpath,$homedocpath,
+my ($texmfmain,$texmfdist_tetex,$texmfdist_texlive,$texmfdoc,$texmflocal,$texmfhome,
+    $texdocpath,$distdocpath_tetex,$distdocpath_texlive,$docdocpath,$localdocpath,$homedocpath,
     $datadir,
     $dvi_viewer,$dvips_conv,$ps_viewer,$pdf_viewer,
     $pdfps_conv,$html_viewer,$htmlps_conv,$htmlps_redir,
@@ -637,7 +656,7 @@
 sub finddoc {
     my($slcdoc,$slc,$parframe)=@_;
     my ($dummy,$status);
-  SLCDOCFIND: foreach ($texdocpath,$distdocpath,$docdocpath) {
+  SLCDOCFIND: foreach ($texdocpath,$distdocpath_tetex,$distdocpath_texlive,$docdocpath) {
       $slcdoc="$_/$slc";
       if (-e $slcdoc) {
 #       found where it should be
@@ -720,7 +740,8 @@
     my $found=0;
     if ($docselect =~ /\.sty$/) {
     STYPATH: foreach my $fullpath ("$texmfmain/tex/$docselect",
-				   "$texmfdist/tex/$docselect",
+				   "$texmfdist_tetex/tex/$docselect",
+				   "$texmfdist_texlive/tex/$docselect",
 				   "$texmflocal/tex/$docselect",
 				   "$texmfhome/tex/$docselect") {
 	if (-e $fullpath) {

and so on.  I think we can claim that this will solve the bug; it's not
a nice solution, but I don't see any drawbacks unless someone expects to
be able to copy the texdoctk from a Debian binary package and use it on
a different system.

Thanks for giving your input, I would not have had that idea without
seeing your two, seemingly contradicting suggestions...

I'll test now, why not two tetex-bin uploads on one day...

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