Bug#889711: Error installing libmpfr-doc
Control: tags -1 - upstream
Not an upstream bug. Upstream does not provide the
/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual file, which seems to be
generated by Debian tools.
On 2018-02-06 09:25:26 +0100, cruncher wrote:
> Package: libmpfr-doc
> Version: 4.0.1~rc2-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> When installing libmpfr-doc you get this error:
Only when the doc-base package is installed.
> Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 12: value of `Format' not
> specified.
> Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about
> the above error.
>
>
> When running as suggested "install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-
> base/mpfr-manual", this is the output:
>
> Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 10: unrecognised control
> field `#Format'.
> Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 11: unrecognised control
> field `#Files'.
> Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 12: value of `Format' not
> specified.
> /usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual: 3 warnings or non-fatal errors found.
It seems that "#" is not recognized as a comment. Indeed, there is
no way to have comments in doc-base files:
/usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.txt.gz
Line 12 is an empty line. This error is probably due to the above
warnings. It may be a bug in doc-base, which should have ignored
sections with only "unrecognised control fields".
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