Bug#128396: general: /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc breaks update-menu

[Rich Rudnick <rich@pinute.com>]

Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-08
Severity: normal
Tags: patch



-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux aias 2.4.16 #3 Tue Nov 27 09:14:26 PST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=

dpkg -S /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-happydoc does not return any package 
owning this file, so I'm submitting this as general; please reassign
as needed.

For edification:

rich: ~ $ dpkg -S *happy*
dpkg: *doc-base-happydoc* not found.
rich: ~ $ dpkg -l *happy*
No packages found matching doc-base-happydoc.

Well, the above I don't understand at all :)

Currently, the file on my box contains:

?package(doc-base):needs="dwww" section=""\
     title="HappyDoc Source Documentation"\
     description="This is the Source documentation for HappyDoc"\
     command="/usr/share/doc/python-happydoc-doc/srcdocs/index.html"

With this file in place, update-menu complains that 'section' is empty
and fails out, leaving the Debian sub-menu in my Gnome menu empty.

After examining other python doc packages, I modified as follows:

?package(doc-base):needs="dwww" section="Apps/Programming"\
     title="HappyDoc Source Documentation"\
     description="This is the Source documentation for HappyDoc"\
     command="/usr/share/doc/python-happydoc-doc/srcdocs/index.html"

After adding "Apps/Programming" to 'section', update-menus succeeds,
and the Debian submenu is populated.