[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#687524: libboost1.49-doc: missing examples for program_options ...

[Osamu Aoki]

Package: libboost1.49-doc
Version: 1.49.0.1
Severity: wishlist

While reading boost doc at:

/usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/HTML/doc/html/program_options/tutorial.html

There, I found

| In this section, we'll take a look at the most common usage scenarios of the
| program_options library, starting with the simplest one. The examples show only
| the interesting code parts, but the complete programs can be found in the
| "BOOST_ROOT/libs/program_options/example" directory. Through all the examples,
| we'll assume that the following namespace alias is in effect:

Where is this "BOOST_ROOT/". Well, I now know I should have realized
"HTML" was symlink to HTML in /usr/share/doc/libboost1.49-doc so it
means "/usr/share/doc/libboost1.49-doc/examples/".

I think it will be nice if libboost-defaults makes at least symlink
 from "/usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/examples/"
 to   "/usr/share/doc/libboost1.49-doc/examples/"
and also change text
 from "BOOST_ROOT/"
 to   "/usr/share/doc/libboost-doc/examples/"

Then it will be one patch to the source and file can be found always.

This may be some upstream bug since
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/program_options/tutorial.html
has this text and no link.

Osamu

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