Package: htdig Followup-For: Bug #89041 I'd like to make a friendly suggestion for htdig for Etch. I think it would be a good idea to include a note about external parsers in the htdig.conf file (which did exist in the Sarge version of htdig).
I spent a few good hours, messing around with the file doc2html.pl (which I found in the examples section of the included htdig documentation). Further, someone on the htdig mailing list suggested this file. Needless to say, no matter what I did, the file did not work. I then chanced upon the parse_doc.pl file, and got parsing to work by adding the following to htdig.conf: external_parsers: application/pdf->text/html /usr/share/htdig/parse_doc.pl \ application/msword->text/html /usr/share/htdig/parse_doc.pl It would be nice if this was already included in the htdig.conf file, perhaps commented out, giving me the choice to activate it. Perhaps with a little note about installing xpdf-utils, and/or acroread, and installing catdoc, to make it work. That way, others can avoid losing some precious time in setting up their search engine to parse pdf documents. It would also be a good idea to have the accompanying documentation reflect the usage of the parse_doc.pl file, instead of providing examples of stuff that clearly does not work. Thanks for the great work on Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages htdig depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-11 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-11 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and unlocking ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime htdig recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
