Nicholas D Steeves: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:51:38AM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: >> Hi Ximin! >> >> On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 01:49:00AM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: >>> Could dh_sphinxdoc not scan the html files for <script src="$that_value"... >>> and replace it with a link to Debian's MathJax instead? It already does some >>> pretty sophisticated regex-based sanity checks (e.g. relating to #841141 >>> which I filed recently) - so adding a replacement rule shouldn't be too hard >>> right? >>> >>> I can try to write this patch too, when I have some time. >> >> Actually, I just haven’t thought about the idea of replacing that by regex. >> This seemed less sane to me than modifying conf files. >> >> However, as you volunteered to write a patch, I will accept it. Ideally that >> regex should be smart enough to replace only actually included JS files >> in the HTML head, i.e. it should not touch the examples of using MathJax in >> MathJax’ own documentation. I don’t know whether that is easy to implement, >> though. >> >>> BTW can someone point me to some discussion/documentation on precisely >>> how/why symlinks to directories mess with dpkg? I was not aware of this - >>> I have added quite a lot of directory-symlinks to some of my recent JS >>> packages, and we will likely have to do this for ipywidgets, with mathjax... >> >> See [1]. You can use dpkg-maintscript-helper’s “symlink_to_dir” command to >> deal with that in your packages. >> >> Note that for MathJax you should not create any symlinks, just specify the >> path to packaged MathJax in your conf.py, as described in [2]. >> >> [1]: >> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_Will_dpkg_replace_a_symlink_with_a_directory_or_vice_versa.3F >> [2]: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/math.html#confval-mathjax_path >> >> -- >> Dmitry Shachnev > > Any progress on this patch? I'd like to use this method to solve bug > #829361 >
Hi, I forgot about this in the meantime. I don't have time to work on the patch right now, so anyone can feel free to take it over. I guess Dmitry is happy to apply it no matter who writes it, as long as it's good. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
