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

Frank Küster frank at debian.org
Wed Jun 20 19:12:18 CEST 2007


Hi,

there's a problem with the format of the catalogue as shipped with TeX
Live: 

Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

> some of the catalogue entries include links to additional documentions
> and the like, but these files do not exist. Often local files are
> referenced while the site says this package is not part of TeX Live, e.g.
> MikTeX.
>
> I've run webcheck on the catalogue to see which files are affected.
>
> % wecheck -o /tmp /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-en/english/catalogue/index.html
>
> webcheck found more than 6000 bad links. 

This is not a Debian-specific problem, it is also present in the normal
TeXlive installation.  For example, let's take the alphabetically first
entry, a0poster

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/entries/a0poster.html

The first link under "Documentation" looks like this:

        <a href="../../../macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf"><img src="../acroread.png" ALT="Documentation">Package documentation (English): a0_eng.pdf.</a>

which is probably correct on CTAN, but should be 

-        <a href="../../../macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf"><img src="../acroread.png" ALT="Documentation">Package documentation (English): a0_eng.pdf.</a>
+        <a href="../../../../../texmf-dist/doc/latex/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf"><img src="../acroread.png" ALT="Documentation">Package documentation (English): a0_eng.pdf.</a>

So we need to

- go down 5 directories, not three,

- choose between texmf, texmf-dist and texmf-doc

- s/macros/doc/

- s at contrib/@@ (or analogous).

Doesn't look straightforward to fix - any ideas?

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


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