"Glossary of Windows terms" link doesn't work

The 'Glossary of Windows Terms' link in the TOC for 'If you’ve been using Windows' links to "file:////usr/share/gnome/help/windows/C/windows.xml#_auto-gen-id-1", which does not exist. It *might* be possible to fix this issue by changing the following in glossary.xml:

-<glossary lang="&language;">
+<glossary id="glossary" lang="&language;">

I don't know why this link isn't working: Don - can you help?

I change line 14 (<glossary lang="&language;">) to <glossary id="glossary" lang="&language;"> and now everything is fine.
Thank's for Phil Bull

Still, this shouldn't be happening - the file is perfectly valid xml and the link works if it is opened in yelp individually, as opposed to navigating from the front page. I'd like to find out the cause before we push the fix.

I agree with you.the reason must be understood.

I think (I'm just a newbie) that this comes from the glossary not having an id. I had problems opening the page even through the previous page of the template. Normally it uses the "#autogen-id-x" where x is a random number, but after I fixed it like Phil suggested, it gets allways the right address:

file:///usr/share/gnome/help/windows/C/windows.xml#glossary

Might this be the reason Ivaylo and others are looking for?

I still think that yelp should work with this document.

Anyway, I've pushed the simple fix to the repository at https://docteam.ubuntu.com/repos/branches/gutsy and there is a package there waiting to be uploaded (ubuntu-main-sponsors subscribed).

My build is still going and I'm late for work so I'm afraid I can't submit a debdiff. If no one else can do one, then I'll submit one tomorrow. It should be very straightforward, this is the only change since version 7.10.3 and it is text only.

Thanks

Thanks very much Daniel. The debdiff looks exactly right to me.

Matthew: please check the debdiff - is everything alright? Quite a bunch of files move around...

That looks really weird. Daniel - the first diff looks correct, but the second diff you have posted is odd. Are you sure you're comparing the correct package? This line confuses me too:

Comparing ./ubuntu-docs_7.10.3_all.deb and /var/cache/pbuilder/result/ubuntu-docs_7.10.3_all.deb

The new version should be 7.10.4, apart from anything else, and since 7.10.3 I definitely haven't done anything to make files move around.

Approved.

You are right, this is the new debdiff. There's still something weird in it.

Definitely weird. None of that has been touched at all in svn since the last upload. I've checked and the only commit that has been done to the *gutsy* branch since 7.10.3 is the one fixing this bug (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc-commits/2007-October/003933.html)

Did you get the 7.10.3 source that you are using in the diff from the archive, or is it something you had hanging around from a previous build? It looks suspiciously like it doesn't include this change:

  * Restore symlink-dupes script to eliminate duplicate files (LP: 149040)

(from the changelog in version 7.10.1)

If we can't figure out what is causing this problem, please don't upload and I'll try and take a look myself later.

Daniel - I've tried this myself and get totally different results. I've taken 7.10.3 from the archive, and 7.10.4 as a svn export. The debdiffs look fine. I'll attach both the one on the source package (on the .dsc files) and the one on the binaries (on the .deb files). My builds were done on gutsy, up to date as of yesterday.

I think this is something to do with how to symlink script is working, from the output you gave.

Here's the other debdiff I get.

ubuntu-docs (7.10.4) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Fix broken link in "windows" document (LP: #144796)

 -- Matthew East <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:36:57 +0100