[tex-live] CTAN package pages

Gerd Neugebauer gene at gerd-neugebauer.de
Fri Mar 6 20:12:33 CET 2015


> On 06 March 2015 at 20:04 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:

[...]
> The "Contact" button occurs outside the context of the page, in the page
> wrapper, and leads to a generic address :
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/contact/
> 
> It was not (and is not) at all clear to me that the "Contact" button is
> intended to provide a feedback mechanism for the page, and when clicked,
> the visitor is offered just two options :
> 
> > In case of tech­ni­cal prob­lems with these Web pages please
> > con­tact web­mas­ter at ctan.org
> >
> > In case of up­load prob­lems with pack­ages please con­tact
> > ctan at ctan.org
> 
> Neither of these are appropriate if one wants to report (e.g.,) a
> factual error on the page. and the fact that the link fails to capture
> the page context as in, for example :
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/contact/feedback.aspx?URL=http://www.ctan.org/pkg/phaistos
> (with appropriate URL encoding))
> 
> means that it is effectively useless for such purposes.

OK. Understood. I will have to think about a solution.

> ** Phil.

Ciao
Gerd



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