reassign 487722 dhelp thanks On 23/06/08 at 12:40 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Package: libruby1.8 > Version: 1.8.7-2 > Severity: normal > > > May warrant higher severity: this bug breaks unrelated packages. In > fact, it breaks the installation of any packages at all. However, I > would expect someone else to have reported this if it were a general > problem. My aptitude update hung at "Registering documents with > dhelp..." until I killed the parent process. > > Here's the relevant terminal log: > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Processing triggers for doc-base ... > Processing 1 removed, 482 changed, 1 added doc-base file(s)... > NoMethodError: private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass > (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:289:in `escape' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:119:in `uri_escape' > (erb):48:in `export_section_page' > (erb):47:in `each' > (erb):47:in `export_section_page' > (erb):43:in `each' > (erb):43:in `export_section_page' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:94:in `export_section_page' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:42:in `export' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:41:in `each_pair' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:41:in `export' > /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:132:in `main' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/commandline/application.rb:250:in `run' > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/commandline/application.rb:269:in `__set_auto_run' > /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:91) > Registering documents with dhelp...
Sounds like it's a dhelp bug, not a ruby one. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]