Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: yelp
It's not clear to me whether it is intended that Yelp will hold all the
HTML (DocBook, etc?) help documents installed on a system, but it's
clear to me that there are many packages on an Ubuntu system that
install these types of files (help files in HTML format, eg gsl-doc-
html, openoffice.org-dev-doc, flex-doc, scons, and many more) where
these files simply disappear into the file system and are very hard to
locate unless you know they exist, and use 'dpkg' to get a file listing.
Wouldn't it be a good thing if Ubuntu packaging required or advised
packagers to register their documentation files with Yelp, so that they
could be indexed and searchable, just as the basic documentation set is?
If Yelp isn't intended to fulfill this role, then I think some kind of
unified help browser that *does* is needed.
** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Need documentation for how to add documentation to yelp
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337096
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