Old user-guide in Natty?

[Shaun McCance]

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 08:19 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> On 15 April 2011 06:16, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc> wrote:
> > On 2011-04-15 06:56, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> >> On 2011-04-15 06:13, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> >>> I think the broken link you saw was to
> >>> ghelp:nautilus-file-properties-basic which was not included in the
> >>> older gnome-user-guide we published but it's in the current version
> >>
> >> Nope. It is to ghelp:user-guide?gospanel-52#gospanel-52. Hence my idea
> >> of adding user-guide back temporarily.
> >
> > Let me add: user-guide was removed as late as 28 February, so there has
> > not been a lot of time for package maintainers to notice and take actions.
> 
> The problem we have here is that several application help buttons link
> to the old user-guide for their help. And if the upstream maintainers
> have fixed this in Gnome 3, that doesn't help us, because Ubuntu ships
> Gnome 2 versions of many of these applications.
> 
> Shaun - is there any kind of redirect we can use to solve this?

You could probably create a symlink in /usr/share/gnome/help from
user-guide to gnome-help (or natty-help or whatever, not sure what
the plan is for the doc ID). That'll get you an effective document
copy. Not a true redirect. Things like local overrides, bookmarks,
and read-later links won't follow the redirected-to document.

But even with that, page IDs aren't going to match. So instead of
a "document not found" error, you'll get "page not found".

There's not really a good solution here. What I did in GNOME was
run the following command in the directory where my Blip instance
has its checkouts:

find . -type f -exec grep -H user-guide {} \;

And I didn't fix everything I found. I think I missed some links
in vino, because we don't have any topics for that. And I couldn't
do anything with modules that are only GNOME2 or fallback. I did
fix Nautilus.

--
Shaun