doc-base and gzipped PDF files
Hi!
While working on the new mpich package, I am experiencing some problems
related to doc-base and gzipped PDF files. There are three such files,
but I'll focus on one of them to explain the problem.
The mpich-doc package contains /usr/share/doc/install.pdf.gz, which is
an installation guide. In the package source, I have a file
debian/mpich-doc.doc-base.install, which contains the text:
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Document: mpich-install-guide
Title: MPICH Installer's Guide
Author: Pavan Balaji et. al.
Abstract: Describes how to obtain and install MPICH.
Section: Programming/C
Format: PDF
Files: /usr/share/doc/mpich-doc/install.pdf.gz
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This seems to work well during installation of the package, with no
error messages. When mpich-doc is installed, I can access the file by
running dhelp, going to the appropriate section, and clicking on the
correct link. Firefox will then ask me what do do with the *.pdf.gz
file, and I ask it to open it with evince, which works fine.
But here comes the problem: When I uninstall mpich-doc, I get the
following error message:
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Invalid format PDF for mpich-install-guide (MPICH Installer's Guide)
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Does the doc-base system not support gzipped PDF files? In the doc-base
documentation, I see several other examples of gzipped files, e.g.
*.ps.gz, *.dvi.gz, *.info.gz, *.txt.gz and *.sgml.gz.
Best regards
Torquil Sørensen
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