python-doc search does not work

[Douglas Bagnall]

The search interface to locally installed python-3.10-doc (and probably other versions) fails to work in Firefox.

To reproduce, attempt to search from this page (or the search bar on other pages):

file:///usr/share/doc/python3.10/html/search.html

The reason for this is the jquery.js and underscore.js files are symlinks to files under /usr/share/javascript/, and Firefox won't follow them.

Replacing the symlinks with copies fixes the problem, in the short term at least.

This could presumably be fixed in the python packages by removing the parts of debian/rules that make these into symlinks in the first place.

Having a locally searchable copy of the documentation is useful when there is no network.

[Amin Bandali (bandali)]

Hello, and sorry for the slow reply here.

I believe this has since been fixed, and Firefox should be able to access the js files under /usr/share/javascript/. I just tried a search on file:///usr/share/doc/python3.12/html/search.html on Ubuntu 24.04 and it works in Firefox as expected.

As such, I'll go ahead and mark this as Fix Released. Thanks.