Bug#44643: packaging-manual: packaging-manual won't install

[<tdanner@drpepper.baker.rice.edu>]

Package: packaging-manual
Version: 3.0.1.1
Severity: normal

drpepper: ~# apt-get install packaging-manual
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  packaging-manual 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 148kB of archives. After unpacking 313kB will be used.
Get:1 http://linux.rice.edu potato/main packaging-manual 3.0.1.1 [148kB]
Fetched 148kB in 0s (355kB/s)        
Selecting previously deselected package packaging-manual.
(Reading database ... 33727 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking packaging-manual (from /var/cache/apt/archives/packaging-manual_3.0.1.                                       1_all.deb) ...
Setting up packaging-manual (3.0.1.1) ...
/usr/share/doc-base/debian-policy: cannot open control file for reading: No such                                        file or directory at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 610.
dpkg: error processing packaging-manual (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 packaging-manual
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)


doc-base is at version 0.7.5, neither dhelp nor dwww are installed.  This is
an up-to-date potato system.


-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux drpepper 2.2.12 #2 Sat Aug 28 23:25:34 CDT 1999 i586 unknown