Uses old theme and has bad links

[Doug Smythies]

It seems that the installation guide was never updated for the new theme.

There is the “old” theme, I refer to it as the one with the “brown” background.
And the “new” theme, I refer to it as the one with the “red” background.

For any web pages that are still using the old theme, the included images
in various sub pages of https://help.ubuntu.com/ are missing.

For example (from the html code of the installation guide):

<img alt="Ubuntu" id="logo" src="https://help.ubuntu.com/htdocs/ubuntunew/img/logo.png" />

Try to open:

https://help.ubuntu.com/htdocs/ubuntunew/img/logo.png

It is not there. To be clear, we have no intention of putting the file there, because the root issue
is the theme not the files.

The 12.04 version of the installation guide can be navigated to via
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/index.html

However, the 12.10 version can not be navigated to via
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/index.html
even though it is there.

Now we are trying to pull together the 13.04 offline version of help.ubuntu.com and face the same issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

So, the `ubuntunew` theme had a bug, now this bug is fixed. What is the problem with updating theme? What actions should be made and why it is impossible?

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

After a couple of years of trying, someone finally stepped up to work on the installation guide. However, they now seem to have given up.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

Has the technical debt grown too big? =)

[Doug Smythies (dsmythies)]

I am setting the status of this one to invalid.

It turns out that this never was a problem with the installation-guide project/package but rather a problem with some long lost process for converting the installation guide to some themed content for inclusion in help.ubuntu.com. It is that process that: Is lost; Was never updated to the new theme; Left an annoying legacy mess within the help.ubuntu.com file structure.

We are merely including the installation guide without any theme, which is identical to how it displays if one installs the package.