Bug #14667 texi docs are not part of the source
Submitted: 5 Nov 2005 4:31 Modified: 30 Mar 2006 1:59
Reporter: Jens Elkner Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.15 OS:Linux (Linux)
Assigned to: Kent Boortz CPU Architecture:Any

[5 Nov 2005 4:31] Jens Elkner 
Description:
Somebody forgot to include the texi doc files in the source tarball - at least in 4.x they could be found in the Docs/ directory. Without them it doesn't make sense to build packages for upgrading from 4.x ...

How to repeat:
download mysql-5.0.15.tar.gz, unpack and try to find *.texi

Suggested fix:
add the missing files to the Docs/ directory
[29 Mar 2006 21:22] Kent Boortz 
It was decided only to provide documentation inside the
source package in "info" format, and provide other
formats separately, downloadable from

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

Unfortunately not in texi format.
[30 Mar 2006 1:59] Jens Elkner 
Hmmm, too bad - since all provided formats (PDF, HTML) are not very usable. 

What I actually did, was to convert the texi stuff into docbook and than generated much better formatted and smaller HTML pages than the original. Many user find it much better and very useful, since it has an index section aka "SQL Command, Type, and Function Index" as well, so that they can navigate and find, what they are looking for very fast...

So is it possible to provide another format as well. I guess, some source exists, which is not HTML ;-)