upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

[Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@chello.at>]

Hi,

when I apt-get update and upgrade in woody I get the above error message
for a lot of packages. When a special package is upgraded (I think dhelp
itself, but maybe another part of the help system) I get a _lot_ of
these, obviously when the package builds some kind of database.

The file exists:

mario@sonic:~$ ll /var/lib/dhelp/titles
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  0 Aug 30 17:39 /var/lib/dhelp/titles
mario@sonic:~$

But it is empty:

mario@sonic:~$ cat /var/lib/dhelp/titles
mario@sonic:~$
 
Maybe related, /usr/doc/HTML/index.html doesn't exist on my system.

This has been going on for a long long time. I seem to remember that
there once was a discussion about this on the list. IIRC it was said
that this was a bug that would be fixed some time. I can't find anything
in the list archive, however. In any case,  a long time has passed since
then without a fix, at least on my system.

Thanks for help or pointers, M.
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