[ replying via mailinglist, assuming private reply was accidental ] Quoting Raj Kiran Grandhi (2020-02-24 15:33:26) > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> > wrote: > > > > Sounds like a bug, probably in one of the packages suggested by > > doc-base: > > > > $ apt-cache show doc-base | grep ^Suggests Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter, rarian-compat > > > > Please, besides looking for ways to work around this issue, report > > it as a bug: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > > > When trying to file a bug report for python-matplotlib-doc, reportbug > suggested installing the latest version from sid. Installing the sid > version of the python-matplotlib-doc has fixed the search problem. > Same for python-numpy-doc and python-scipy-doc. I have not continued > with filing the bug report as the bugs seem to have been fixed. Do you > think I should file it anyway? > > The only minor quirk is that the versions of the *-doc packages don't > match with the actual library version. I can live with that :-) I suggest to check the changelogs (upstream and Debian-specific, whichever applies to the delta between the version you had before and the version you now installed from sid) to see if the issue is _knowingly_ fixed - becaue if not then it might reappear later. In other words, I recommend filing as a bug if it seems the issue was solved without anyone noticing it. Worst thing I can imagine happening if you file a bugreport is that you receice an angry email saying something like "you idiot, you have wasted 2 minutes of my life writing this bug-closing email because I don't care as much about this code as you do and therefore want it to _look_ well maintained and users obviously cannot possibly know better than me what that means" - which you can then simply ignore: You did you best! Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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