On Fri, Dec 07, 2018, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 06:38:40PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > +@display
> > +@file{/usr/share/doc/groff-base/html/mom/toc.html}
> > +@end display
> [...]
> > +@display
> > +@file{/usr/share/doc/groff-base/pdf/mom-pdf.pdf}
> > +@end display
> [...]
> > I'm not sure whether it's okay for entry points to local files to
> > have literal paths or whether they need to be rendered symbolically
> > for build/install purposes, so I won't commit without your go-ahead.
>
> These paths are *very* Debian-and-derivatives-specific (even leaving
> aside the hardcoded /usr/share/doc prefix, the split between groff-base
> and groff is a Debianism), so they can't be committed upstream like
> that.
That's what I thought.
> Either the local references will need to be omitted, or we'll
> need some kind of arrangement along the lines of the existing
> @HTMLDOCDIR@ and @PDFDOCDIR@ in groff's man pages (I'm not sure how
> practical that is in texinfo).
Neither am I. What I know about texifo wouldn't fit in a thimble.
Bertrand, how do you feel about omitting the local docs, leaving
just the pointer to the online docs? If you're agreeable, I can
commit the change.
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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
