We've got a lot of packages in the DB that have long been removed from
the Arch repos. These are still indexed, but won't clutter the package
listing anymore.
Also fixed an issue with packages.id numbers getting rather large
because the indexer allocates a new ID for every package on every
update.
I didn't touch the actual man page pages yet, but they seem to have
mostly survived my CSS changes. There's a LOT of general UI improvements
to be done, while this commit is really just a different style of paint.
Should really be Debian, but we only index Debian stable at the moment
and it tends to lag behind Ubuntu a bit. This extra bias is intended to
solve (part of) the issue with distro-specific tooling like 'ifup'.
This really should be updated to have a generic preference order for all
distros, but that's not as easy to implement.
Fixes#1.
Unfortunately, this can lead to slightly confusing scenarios, because
the exact package of the displayed man page is not very well defined.
It's possible that, when browsing from a package listing to a man page,
you may see an included file that does not come from the package you
browsed from.
E.g. https://manned.org/pwrite/5f2909f6 - that man page simply includes
pread.2, but from the URL it's unclear from which package or system it
should be included.
The only way to fix this is to add the package ID to the link format.
This is where the old nav menu used to be. This involved shrinking the
width of the locations/versions selector, but that never needed the full
page width anyway. Unfortunately I suck at CSS so the nav menu and
selector thing won't look too great on smaller screen sizes; but that's
just a minor visual uglyness.
The encoding metadata will be very useful in finding badly decoded man
pages. The package 'arch' is necessary to properly identify which
package was used, which is not obvious now that I'm going to switch more
systems to the (more common) x86_64 arch.
This removes the navigation menu on the right, leaving more space for
the actual contents. Instead, there are now a few links/tabs at the top
of the page. There's also a 'permalink' now.
The previous navigation combined the selection of man page versions,
translations and sections in a single menu. While handy in some cases,
in most cases it was just slow and messy. It also didn't scale very
well, some man pages have so many versions that it significantly
affected the page load time.
The 'locations' table has now also been moved into tab and is loaded
asynchronously as well, for the same performance reasons.
I had hoped that this new navigation would be much easier and more
convenient, but honestly, it's still a mess. At least the new code is
more maintainable, so perhaps I'll be able to make some incremental
improvements in the future.
