About Texdoc release and tlpdb

Takuto ASAKURA tkt.asakura at gmail.com
Sat Feb 1 09:15:16 CET 2020


Hi Karl, Norbert, and All,

I'm planning to release a new version of Texdoc tomorrow.

Meanwhile, I noticed that, in the tlpdb, documents for the
latex-base-dev package are more "detailed" than those for the
main latex package.

>From line 138573 in the tlpdb (r53620):

	name latex
	[...]
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/README.md
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/alltt.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/bugs.txt
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/cfgguide.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/cfgguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/changes.old.txt
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/changes.txt
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/classes.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/clsguide.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/clsguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/cmfonts.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/cyrguide.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/cyrguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/doc.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/docstrip.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/encguide.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/encguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/exscale.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/fix-cm.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/fntguide.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/fntguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/graphpap.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ifthen.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/inputenc.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/latexchanges.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/latexchanges.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/latexrelease.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/latexsym.pdf
	[...]

and from line 139041:

	name latex-base-dev
	[...]
	docfiles size=5563
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/README.md details="Readme"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/alltt.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/bugs.txt
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/cfgguide.pdf details="Configuration guide"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/cfgguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/changes.old.txt
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/changes.txt
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/classes.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/clsguide.pdf details="Class and package programming guide"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/clsguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/cmfonts.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/cyrguide.pdf details="Cyrillic languages guide"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/cyrguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/doc.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/docstrip.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/encguide.pdf details="Font encoding guide"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/encguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/exscale.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/fix-cm.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/fntguide.pdf details="Font selection guide"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/fntguide.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/graphpap.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/ifthen.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/inputenc.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/latexchanges.pdf details="Details of changes to LaTeX2e"
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/latexchanges.tex
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/latexrelease.pdf
	 texmf-dist/doc/latex-dev/base/latexsym.pdf
	[...]

I understood that you think the "details" part of tlpdb is not
so informative, maybe that is true, but it seems weird that
latex-base-dev, which is less important than the actual latex
package, has more "detailed" information.

For instance, Texdoc gives bonus for the documents with the
details entry. Current situation lead us to the wrong way,
since we want to prioritize the latex package than the latex-dev.

Please take the either of removing details of latex-dev or
adding the same details parts for the latex package.

Thanks,
Takuto




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