Issue 1746 in lilypond: v2.13.48 docball adds offline-root/ directory

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New issue 1746 by brownian.box: v2.13.48 docball adds offline-root/  
directory
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1746

Reported by Jan Nieuwenhuizen,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-07/msg00120.html :

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...and thus breaks documentation links, notably info pages.
This will probably happen in all binary builds, it happens
in GUB.

    12:54:19  
address@hidden:/var/www/lilypond/download/binaries/documentation
    $ tar taf lilypond-2.13.47-1.documentation.tar.bz2 | grep /examples.html
    ./share/doc/lilypond/html/examples.html
    ./share/doc/lilypond/html/Documentation/web/examples.html
    12:56:23  
address@hidden:/var/www/lilypond/download/binaries/documentation
    $ tar taf lilypond-2.13.48-1.documentation.tar.bz2 | grep /examples.html
    ./share/doc/lilypond/html/offline-root/examples.html
    ./share/doc/lilypond/html/offline-root/Documentation/web/examples.html
    12:58:58  
address@hidden:/var/www/lilypond/download/binaries/documentation

With this change, quite possibly we need all distribution maintainers to  
update/change their build scripts.  Is this intentional?  Can this be  
reverted?  Do we need to warn package maintainers (how?).

Greetings, Jan
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