Re: doc-base errors, documentation installation
> moving the doc-base file to libnetcdf-doc should be the right
> way forward.
Alright, I'll see to that.
> I wanted to reproduce your problem, but was unable because the source
> package in git is different from the source you're working with.
I'm working in [1], but replace the sources daily (locally) to make
sure the next version of netCDF will build correctly, too. Once we
have a netCDF release (in about two weeks, if the devs' projection is
alright), I'll push it to alioth too.
–Nico
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/netcdf.git/log/?h=split-c-f-cxx
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg
<sebastic@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi Nico,
>
> First of all thanks for your work on NetCDF!
>
>> The package I'm looking at is netCDF [1] which – apart from the
>> library and headers – installs the file
>> ```
>> $ cat /usr/share/doc-base/netCDF
>
> Interestingly there is no doc-base file in the souce package. Do you have
> local changes not yet available in the git repository?
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/netcdf.git
>
>> Document: netCDF
>> Title: NetCDF Manual
>> Author: Russ Rew, Glenn Davis, Steve Emmerson, Harvey Davies, Ed
>> Hartnett, Dennis Heimbigner, Ward Fisher
>> Abstract: This manual describes what netCDF is, and how it can be used.
>> Section: File Management
>>
>> Format: HTML
>> Index: /usr/share/doc/netCDF/index.html
>> Files: /usr/share/doc/netCDF/*.html
>> ```
>> and of course a bunch of files in
>> ```
>> $ ls /usr/share/doc/netCDF/*
>> [...]
>> ```
>> Up until now, I've always put all files of `/usr/share/doc/netCDF/*`
>> into libnetcdf-doc, and the file `/usr/share/doc-base/netCDF` into the
>> libnetcdf-dev package. With this, however, I'm getting
>
> The doc-base file should be in the same package as the documention it
> references, moving the doc-base file to libnetcdf-doc should be the right
> way forward.
>
>> ```
>> $ install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-base/netCDF
>> Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/netCDF', line 1: invalid value of
>> `Document' field.
>> Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/netCDF', line 9: file
>> `/usr/share/doc/netCDF/index.html' does not exist.
>> Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/netCDF', line 9: all `Format' sections
>> are invalid.
>> ```
>> The second warning I understand, but I'm not sure how to best fix it.
>> Move `/usr/share/doc-base/netCDF` into the doc package?
>> The first warning and the error I don't understand.
>>
>> Ideas, anyone?
>
> I wanted to reproduce your problem, but was unable because the source
> package in git is different from the source you're working with.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
>
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