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Re: libstdc++/8516 (broken links in libstdc++ html documentation)
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Jonathan Wakely <cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at smile dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, debian-gcc at lists dot debian dot org
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:19:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: libstdc++/8516 (broken links in libstdc++ html documentation)
- References: <E18AtfP-0003g3-00@smile.cs.tu-berlin.de> <20021111102716.GA33345@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:27:16AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 04:06:27PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > >Description:
> > running htdig on the installed set of html docs shows some
> > broken/non-existing links:
>
> The files lwg-active.html and lwg-defects.html are copied verbatim from
> the standard committee site. As most of the links in those pages are
> relative links to other pages on that site, which aren't included in
> libstdc++, they don't work.
And in fact this is documented in ext/howto.html, which is the entry point
to the LWG files.
> The other broken links all appear to be for .txt files, which are included
> with the sources. They should be ok, but it looks like they've not been
> included with the HTML files.
I checked the libstdc++5-doc package just now. They have been included,
but (in too-stringent accordance with Debian policy regarding /usr/share/doc
files) they've been gzipped. Not Our Problem. :-)
Phil
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