add line breaks to html docs to make them grep-friendly

[Chris Pimlott]

Binary package hint: samba-doc

Some of the html docs in htmldocs have extremely long lines (1000+) that make them very grep-unfriendly. They should have added line breaks in order to reduce the line lengths.

Some of these appear to be automatically generated files, like the indices ix01.html. The generating program could be modified to add line breaks. For other files, the html could be run through tidy before release.

I understand that these documents are primarily intended to be viewed in a web browser, but it wouldn't hurt anything to make them a bit more directly readable.

You can find longest line per file by running:
"find /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ -name \*.html -exec wc -L {} \; 2> /dev/null | sort -nr"

Here's the top 10:
200689 htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/ix01.html
137152 htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ix01.html
47725 htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/index.html
32938 htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/optional.html
24247 htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/index.html
21400 htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/2000users.html
19950 htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/nw4migration.html
14875 htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/happy.html
13911 htmldocs/Samba3-ByExample/Big500users.html
12728 htmldocs/Samba3-Developers-Guide/index.html

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

No such package exists anymore. Is this still an issue?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for samba (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]