reassign dhelp quit On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 08:40:16PM +0100, Marc Langer wrote: > Package: menu > Version: 2.1.22 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 12.3 > > I deleted /usr/share/doc/* to get more disk space and then updated > menu from woody to sid. post-installation returned with error code 21 > as /usr/share/doc/menu/html did not exist and the .dhelp file could not > be created there.
Hello Marc (and Stephan) .dhelp files are created by /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse which is part of the dhelp package, not by menu. What happens is that menu postinst register documentation through doc-base. This cause /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse to be run if dhelp is installed. The menu package include a file /usr/share/doc-base/menu that includes the following lines: Format: HTML Index: /usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html Files: /usr/share/doc/menu/html/*.html This is that file that cause /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse to try to create a dhelp file. I don't think Policy 12.3 can be read to forbid such reference, and there are lots of packages registering documentation in /usr/share/doc. I am sure however that this is not a useful reading, because doing so will require moving a lot of documentation outside /usr/share/doc which will greatly reduce the potential space-saving of removing it. So I would conclude this is rather a bug in dhelp itself that should handle missing directories gracefully (which is always a good idea independently of policy). > Debian Policy Manual section 12.3 says that /usr/share/doc must not > exist and no package should rely on it. s/must/might/ please :) Thanks for your bug report, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
