Bug#57367: marked as done (generate helpindex files in postinst, let other packages add themselves)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #57367,
regarding generate helpindex files in postinst, let other packages add themselves
to be marked as done.

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• To: submit@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: /usr/share/doc/texmf/mkhtml needs to be executable
• From: Jamie Fifield <fifield@ghost.nslug.ns.ca>
• Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:06:29 -0400
• Message-id: <20000208140629.A717@ghost.nslug.ns.ca>

Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0-7
Severity: Normal

/usr/share/doc/texmf/mkhtml is mode 644, but in order to build the 
documentation as per the README (i.e. by typing make), mkhtml needs to
be executable (or the Makefile needs to be changed to run it anyway, such
as "sh ./mkhtml").

Thanks!

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Jamie Fifield
<fifield@chebucto.ns.ca>

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• To: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
• Cc: 57367-done@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: Re: Bug#57367: /usr/share/doc/texmf/mkhtml needs to be executable
• From: Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>
• Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:22:55 +0200
• Message-id: <87lj7gaqjk.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20100904140850.GA14534@preusse-16223.user.cis.dfn.de> (Hilmar Preusse's message of "Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:08:50 +0200")
• References: <20000208140629.A717@ghost.nslug.ns.ca> <87r7uiagvq.fsf@alhambra.bioz.unibas.ch> <[🔎] 20100904140850.GA14534@preusse-16223.user.cis.dfn.de>

Version: 2009

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> reassign 57367 texlive-common
> stop
>
> On 20.04.04 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>
>> This script is executable in the current tetex-beta sources.
>> Furthermore,
>> 
> The mkhtml script does not exist any more in Debian (TL). There is an
> mkhtmlindex script in xutils-dev, but I can't really believe it has
> the same purpose. Unfortunately I simply forgot what the mkhtml
> script was expected to do. Frank, can you remember?

I think it checked the contents of the TEXMFMAIN/doc directory,
recursively, and generated a large html file that had a structure that
resembled this directory hierarchy and had links to all documentation
files, or the ones it thought were the main files for each
subdirectory. 

I don't think it makes sense to work on this these days. texdoc is what
is developed now, and if someone wants to create a graphical or
html-based interface to TeX documentation, they'd use texdoc as the
search and display engine.

Since the new texdoc works properly at least since texlive 2009, I'm
closing.

It's funny, by the way, that the last message in the bug log before
yours, Hilmar, was a particularly useful one, although for a different
issue:  The hint by Stefan Ulrich for your texdoctk wrapper, now in C!

Regards, Frank


-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg

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