Bug#425085: [tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> but before we even start, we need to know what we want the links to
> point to.  suppose ctan has pdf docs and texlive has .dvi ... or, as in
> the case of footmisc, ctan has pdf and texlive has no docs at all?

If texlive has no docs at all, it's a bug.  If the format is different,
hm, some simple matching rules?

>> If someone wants to take this up, great.
>
> as it stands, i don't think it's do-able.  we need a definition of
> what's really required.  (this comes as a surprise to me ... until this
> issue arose, i had assumed it was all trivial.)
>
> would a non-ctan html version, as you find on sarovar, help?

Yes, that's the style.  But here the doc links point to a CTAN mirror,
for example

http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/scripts/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf

but for offline use you want the FOO/macros/latex/contrib to be replaced
by the path in the TEXMF tree...

Regards, Frank

P.S. Who is Jörg@tug.org in the Cc line?  My mail program refused to
send the umlaut
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)