Bug#487149: texlive-doc-en: Source missing for some documentation files

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr>]

Frank Küster scripsit (24.06.2008 22:07)
> Ah, I didn't know that. More work for texdoc.tlu - while I hate being
> shown the Catalogue page if the package documenation has a generic name
> like "manual.pdf", I think it *is* useful when there's nothing
> available. 
> 
Same here.  And the catalogue page is sometimes a good way to find the actual
doc, using the (non-working) documentation link to find the right name.

Anyway, Karl wants to remove the catalogue, for the two following reasons
(unless I misunderstood him) : (a) it gets outdated very fast and makes a few
Mb, which slows down the updates (b) we have a lot of information from the
Catalogue in texlive.tlpdb.

When I asked him about that, he suggested that when no documentation is found,
texdoc prints a message with a link to the package's page on ctan (or the
search page in case no package is found on ctan).  That's what texdoc does
now, but I don't know if Karl already arranged the redirection.  Any comments
or ideas welcome.

Anyway, since we have the project to enable using texlive.tlpdb from texdoc,
this problem should not last very long.  (There will be other problems, like
what do we do with packages from the catalogue with no corresponding TL
package, for example when they are parts of bundles...)

Manuel.