Bug#889711: Error installing libmpfr-doc

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: tags -1 - upstream

Not an upstream bug. Upstream does not provide the
/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual file, which seems to be
generated by Debian tools.

On 2018-02-06 09:25:26 +0100, cruncher wrote:
> Package: libmpfr-doc
> Version: 4.0.1~rc2-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> When installing libmpfr-doc you get this error:

Only when the doc-base package is installed.

> Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 12: value of `Format' not
> specified.
> Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about
> the above error.
> 
> 
> When running as suggested "install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-
> base/mpfr-manual", this is the output:
> 
> Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 10: unrecognised control
> field `#Format'.
> Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 11: unrecognised control
> field `#Files'.
> Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 12: value of `Format' not
> specified.
> /usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual: 3 warnings or non-fatal errors found.

It seems that "#" is not recognized as a comment. Indeed, there is
no way to have comments in doc-base files:

  /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.txt.gz

Line 12 is an empty line. This error is probably due to the above
warnings. It may be a bug in doc-base, which should have ignored
sections with only "unrecognised control fields".

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Bug#889711: Error installing libmpfr-doc

[cruncher]

Package: libmpfr-doc
Version: 4.0.1~rc2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

When installing libmpfr-doc you get this error:

Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 12: value of `Format' not
specified.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about
the above error.


When running as suggested "install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-
base/mpfr-manual", this is the output:

Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 10: unrecognised control
field `#Format'.
Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 11: unrecognised control
field `#Files'.
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual', line 12: value of `Format' not
specified.
/usr/share/doc-base/mpfr-manual: 3 warnings or non-fatal errors found.


Regards



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libmpfr-doc depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.19.0.5
ii  install-info  6.5.0.dfsg.1-2

libmpfr-doc recommends no packages.

libmpfr-doc suggests no packages.

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