Bug#270130: glade-doc-2: Cannot read documentation

Bill Wohler Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>, 270130@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:29:36 -0700


J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <fsmla@xinara.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:11:59 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > The documentation is only in XML files rather than HTML, and there isn't a
> > README.Debian that describes how to create HTML files or otherwise view
> > the documentation.
> 
> The documentation is accessible through "yelp", the GNOME help browser
> application.

Thanks for the info, I see it now. I was happy to see that I didn't even
have to specify a path--the glade manual was accessible through the
top-level table of contents.

>              glade-doc-2 ought to have a "Recommends: yelp (>= 2.6.0)" for
> this.

Agreed. In addition, please add the above info to the package
description and/or README.Debian for the benefit of those of us who have
never heard of yelp (by name, anyway, as it is usually launched by
applications behind the scenes).

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