Bug#740126: qtcreator: fails to find qtcreator docs

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>]

Package: qtcreator
Followup-For: Bug #740126

Dear Maintainer,

I just installed qtcreator initially with no help files as I have
aptitude set to not automatically install recommended packages.  I then
installed the qtcreator-doc and qt5-doc packages plus the
qttools5-dev-tools package and restarted qtcreator.  I found the help
contents was still blank and the qtcreator help system loaded a link into
the default web browser instead.

I found via a Web search the method to associate the help files manually
as did the originator of this report.  After manually adding the files
the help contents is now populated correctly.

Does qtcreator have a system-wide help registration that is not run when
new documentation is added?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages qtcreator depends on:
ii  libbotan-1.10-0                          1.10.8-2
ii  libc6                                    2.19-13
ii  libgcc1                                  1:4.9.2-4
ii  libqt5concurrent5                        5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5core5a [qtbase-abi-5-3-2]          5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5declarative5 [qtquick1-abi-5-2-1]  5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5designer5                          5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5designercomponents5                5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5gui5                               5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5help5                              5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5network5                           5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5printsupport5                      5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5qml5 [qtdeclarative-abi-5-3-2]     5.3.2-4
ii  libqt5quick5                             5.3.2-4
ii  libqt5script5                            5.3.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5sql5                               5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5sql5-sqlite                        5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5webkit5                            5.3.2+dfsg-3
ii  libqt5widgets5                           5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5x11extras5                         5.3.2-2
ii  libqt5xml5                               5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libstdc++6                               4.9.2-4
ii  libx11-6                                 2:1.6.2-3
ii  qml-module-qtquick-controls              5.3.2-2
ii  qml-module-qtquick2                      5.3.2-4
ii  qtchooser                                47-gd2b7997-2
ii  qtcreator-data                           3.2.1+dfsg-7

Versions of packages qtcreator recommends:
ii  gdb                                   7.7.1+dfsg-5
ii  make                                  4.0-8
ii  qt5-doc                               5.3.2-3
pn  qtbase5-dev-tools                     <none>
ii  qtcreator-doc                         3.2.1+dfsg-7
pn  qtdeclarative5-dev-tools              <none>
pn  qtquick1-5-dev-tools                  <none>
ii  qttools5-dev-tools                    5.3.2-3
pn  qttranslations5-l10n                  <none>
pn  qtxmlpatterns5-dev-tools              <none>
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.6.3-1+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           312-1

Versions of packages qtcreator suggests:
pn  cmake          <none>
ii  g++            4:4.9.2-1
ii  git            1:2.1.3-1
pn  kdelibs5-data  <none>
pn  subversion     <none>

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