Bug#905938: git-rebase(1) has wrong filename for revert-a-faulty-merge.html
Control: severity -1 minor Control: retitle -1 Files in git-doc may not be findable by apt-file search On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 19:27 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > tags 905938 + moreinfo > quit > > Hi Ben, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > git-rebase(1) refers to > > /usr/share/doc/git/html/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html, but this > > filename does not exist in any package. git-doc contains > > /usr/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html which is > > presumably the right file to refer to. > > $ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/git/html > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 30 2017 /usr/share/doc/git/html -> ../git-doc > > Is it configured differently on your machine? No, it's not. Now that I have git-doc installed, the symlink is there and I can access the document through both filenames. Initially I did not have git-doc installed, and "apt-file search" couldn't find the file by the name given in git-rebase(1) because it doesn't take symlinks into account. [...] > Arguably it would be better to install directly into > /usr/share/doc/git/html, but that would have broken links (e.g. > kernel-handbook links to [1]). Perhaps the package should install > docs directly to /usr/share/doc/git/html and put some symlinks in > /usr/share/doc/git-doc --- what do you think? I don't know. Do whichever you think is likely to cause least confusion. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#905938: git-rebase(1) has wrong filename for revert-a-faulty-merge.html
tags 905938 + moreinfo quit Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings wrote: > git-rebase(1) refers to > /usr/share/doc/git/html/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html, but this > filename does not exist in any package. git-doc contains > /usr/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html which is > presumably the right file to refer to. $ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/git/html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 30 2017 /usr/share/doc/git/html -> ../git-doc Is it configured differently on your machine? This setup is from commit 894cf6b9c9cd7d9e783637a1033169a546c78276 Author: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed Jan 12 21:42:46 2011 -0600 debian/rules: install /usr/share/doc/git/html -> ../git-doc symlink git documentation being installed by the git-doc package is an implementation detail that users shouldn't have to care about. After this change, all documentation can be found under /usr/share/doc/git. Arguably it would be better to install directly into /usr/share/doc/git/html, but that would have broken links (e.g. kernel-handbook links to [1]). Perhaps the package should install docs directly to /usr/share/doc/git/html and put some symlinks in /usr/share/doc/git-doc --- what do you think? Thanks, Jonathan [1] file:///usr/share/doc/git-doc/git-bisect-lk2009.html
Bug#905938: git-rebase(1) has wrong filename for revert-a-faulty-merge.html
Package: git-man Version: 1:2.18.0-1 Severity: normal git-rebase(1) refers to /usr/share/doc/git/html/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html, but this filename does not exist in any package. git-doc contains /usr/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html which is presumably the right file to refer to. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information
