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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