Bug#364776: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#364776: texlive-lang-greek: documentation not available via texdoc

[Frank Küster]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner at physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

>> So now there is a mess.
>
> Indeed. Somehow we forgot about documentation when we splitted the
> TEXMF trees, which is why I am taking this over to the debian-(te)tex
> list. 

Thank you.

> With the splitted TEXMFDIST trees we have made it possible to
> install tetex and texlive packages at the same time, even when they
> contain the same files. However, this would no longer be possbile, if
> the texlive packages would implement the current TeX policy. An overlap
> of files installed in /usr/share/texmf/doc would be likely.
>
> How about the following:
>
> tex-common provides the link 
>   /usr/share/texmf/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf
> and 'normal' TeX related packages are supposed to install their
> documentation in /usr/share/doc/texmf, just as it is now.
>
> tetex-base (or tetex-doc) provides the link
>   /usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf-tetex
> and tetex-doc actually installs its files in /usr/share/doc/texmf-tetex. 
>
> Similarly for texlive, one of the basic packages provides a link
>   /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc -> /usr/share/doc/texmf-texlive
> which could take the role /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/ has now, ie, links
> to the appropriate files in /usr/share/doc/<package>. The name change is
> just for symmetry reasons.

This setup is probably the best we can do.  I'm only unsure about the
names for the directories.  Why not /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc and
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc?  We would get the additional copyright and
changelog files available to texdoc, which is mostly useless; but it
doesn't hurt, either, does it?  And it's one thing less to change for
texlive. 

Regards, Frank

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