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

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

> 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.
> -- 
> 
> I did not vote for the Austrian government
> 


The bug, or a related one is still open: http://bug.debian.org/cgi-bin/b
ugreport.cgi?bug=117562&repeatmerged=yes.


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    Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>