Hi,
Yes, this works.
Could you please:
(1) replace
or die "error: empty control file";
with
or return $self->_prserr(PRS_FATAL_ERR, "error: empty control file");
in the line 248 of DocBaseFile.pm
(2) and then send me output of the following command (run as root):
/usr/sbin/install-docs --install-all
The command should register all the valid doc-base files and print names
of the invalid ones.
The output of install-docs --install-all is:
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/debrecipes-es', line 3: error: empty
control file
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc', line 21: format html
already defined
Removing 18 registered documents
Registering 340 installed documents
Now of course doc-base installs without problems and prints the
corresponding warnings.
I'm attaching the control files for debrecipes-es and angband-doc, just
for reference, but the problems are trivial, if I'm not mistaken:
* debrecipes-es is an old Spanish-language package, long removed from
the Debian archive, which I still have in the `Obsolete and locally
installed' part of my system. The trouble seems to have been the
duplicate `Title:' field, in fact renaming the second such line
`Title-es: Recetas Debian', as it was probably meant,
install-docs --install /usr/share/doc-base/debrecipes-es
works without problems and I can access the information with dhelp.
Maybe I'm the only one having this package installed, so the bug is not
*that* important :)
* angband-doc is in the archive, the warning is probably due to there
being three (!) HTML sections in the control file (there should be only
one if I interpret correctly the doc-base manual), but this does not
break doc-base. I can send a wishlist bug report about angband-doc if
this is right.
Thank you a lot,
Miguel Aguado
Document: angband-doc
Title: Documentation for Angband
Author: Various
Abstract: Angband is a single-player, text-based, dungeon
simulation derived from the game Moria, which was in turn based on
Rogue. This package contains additional documentation and spoilers
for the game.
Angband has been written by several generations of programers over
the years, and is derived from an earlier game called moria, and the
documentation has been (often haphazadrly) accumulated over time as
well.
Section: Games/Adventure
Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/angfaq1.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/angfaq1.html
Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/angfaq2.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/angfaq2.html
Format: text
Files: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/angfaq1.txt.gz
Format: text
Files: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/angfaq2.txt.gz
Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/index.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/news.html
/usr/share/doc/angband-doc/bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/angband-doc/mods.html
/usr/share/doc/angband-doc/auto.html
/usr/share/doc/angband-doc/email.html
/usr/share/share/doc/angband-doc/links.html
/usr/share/doc/angband-doc/files.html
Document: debrecipes-es
Title: Debian tips and tricks
Title: Recetas Debian
Author: Jaime E. Villate
Abstract: The Debian "tips and tricks" is a collection of
documents provided by Debian users to aid other users
by documenting some common (sometimes obscure) taks.
These documents are provided at www.laespiral.org and
are currently in Spanish only.
Abstract-es: Las Recetas Debian es una colección de documentos
ofrecidos por los usuarios de Debian a otros usuarios.
Las recetas documentan algunas tareas comunes (y a veces
algo complejas).
Section: Debian
Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/debrecipes-es/index.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/debrecipes-es/*.html
