Re: doc-base and gzipped PDF files
Hello,
On 08/07/13 17:01, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> 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:
>
> ******************************************
> 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
> *************************************
>
> 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:
>
> ************************
> Invalid format PDF for mpich-install-guide (MPICH Installer's Guide)
> **************************
>
> 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.
>
Are you working with dh tools suite?
If yes, have you tried to let them to manage the compression part ?
> Best regards
> Torquil Sørensen
Best wishes,
Jerome
>
>
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