Re: dhelp in woody will prevent woody release?

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:45:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I've been trying to upgrade my system to woody. As it stands, dhelp will 
> cause a woody release to be a major embarrassment to the Debian 
> distribution. Version 0.3.23.2 has a bug which causes installations of 
> many other packages (which install help files) to complain. 
> 
> The bug is a year old, and the maintainer doesn't answer email. One 
> respondent even tracked down the dbopen call within dhelp which is 
> responsible (#109207). I believe the task falls to debian-doc, since 
> dhelp relies on install-docs and doc-base, to correct this problem. 
> 
> If nothing else, we could just back out to Version 0.3.23, which works 
> just fine on my otherwise woody system.

Ooh! Ooh! Finally! }:) Nobody dare to NMU that, let's wait for the release
manager to ditch dhelp once and for all. >:)

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