[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Bug#482807: .dhelp not supported anymore

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:07:36PM +0200, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
>     This bug is totally my fault, I'm sorry. For some reason I assumed that
> nobody was calling dhelp_parse directly, I thought the only dhelp_parse
> "client" was install-docs, so I talked to the doc-base maintainer and we
> decided to make some changes to simplify and improve documentation in Debian.
> The result is that .dhelp files are not supported anymore, dhelp now just uses
> the doc-base format.
> 
>     Because of that, the calling convention for dhelp_parse changed, that's
> why it's choking with doc-linux-html. The documentation wasn't even updated
> (I'm going to upload now, with updated manpage), so I'm the only one to blame
> here.
> 
>     The good thing is, to fix you only have to remove the dhelp_parse call
> from doc-linux-html's postinst, because install-docs will call dhelp_parse
> automatically, and dhelp will know about the documentation :-)
> 
>     Sorry for the inconvenience. Can you please fix, Frank?

The historical reason that doc-linux did that was #114692 in doc-base.
So we were not able to register all the documents individually with doc-base.
Since that bugs seems to be fixed by now, too, I guess I will try to
reenable registering all the documents with doc-base.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig at debian.org>
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