htmldoc - wrong linking - anchor bookmarks inside two different documents, same bookmark name

[Savvas Radevic]

Binary package hint: htmldoc

Hardy heron 8.04 (alpha5 to release candidate, updated)

htmldoc:
  Installed: 1.8.27-3
  Candidate: 1.8.27-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.27-3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It appears that htmldoc doesn't "see" the difference of anchor bookmarks that belong to two different documents but with the same anchor name.

Example:
I tried to create a personal PDF from the Tcl 8.5 manual page, so I put everything into a folder:
wget -nd -np -N -r --level=1 -k -p http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/contents.htm
then ran htmldoc, selected input type as "web page" added the contents.htm as a first page then added the rest of the .htm files.
I've set it to be output as "tcl-commands.pdf" in the same folder.

The conversion was successful, and everything was linked OK, except for one problem:
The anchor bookmarks were linked to the wrong page and to the wrong place, i.e. "string map ?-nocase? mapping string" linked to the wrong page of http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/tclvars.htm#M39 instead of the correct one of http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/string.htm#M39

This only happens with multiple htm conversion. If I convert just a single htm ( for example http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/string.htm ) to PDF the anchor bookmarks within the page are correctly linked.

[Jeff Licquia (jeff-licquia)]

This bug had been reported upstream, and upstream has indicated they won't fix it until 1.9:

http://www.htmldoc.org/str.php?L94+P0+S-2+C0+I40+E0+M10+Q

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

When is 1.9 coming? That's a shame, a patch is available and they don't use it for 3 years
Can't the package maintainer patch it just for Ubuntu?