Package: doc-base
Version: 0.9.4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The control file for doc-base has:
# Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter, scrollkeeper
But scrollkeeper is a transition package to rarian-compat, and
khelpcenter has vanished entirely in favour of khelpcenter4.
Then in the package's long description:
# This package contains utilities to manage documentation installed on
# a Debian system. It contains a database of document metadata.
# Various third-party systems such as 'dwww', 'dhelp', 'doc-central'
# or 'scrollkeeper' use this data to provide a catalog of available
# documentation.
# .
# If you want to get additional information about 'doc-base' please
# consult the `Debian doc-base Manual' included in this package.
s/scrollkeeper/rarian-compat/ - it doesn't actually work, but that's
bug #546208.
While I'm making this tweak, there's other work to do. It isn't
literally true that the doc-base .deb file "contains" the
/var/lib/doc-base database - it just contains the software needed
to populate it. And what's "third-party" about the native Debian
packages dwww, dhelp and doc-central? Does it just mean "not part
of this package"? I'm going to rephrase a few things and filter out
the unnecessary spaces and quote-marks, like this:
This package contains utilities to manage documentation installed on
a Debian system. It generates a database of document metadata, which
other packages such as dwww, dhelp, doc-central, and rarian-compat
can use to provide a catalog of available documentation.
.
For additional information see the Debian doc-base Manual included in
this package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages doc-base depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.3.1 Debian package management system
ii libmldbm-perl 2.01-3 Store multidimensional hash struct
ii libuuid-perl 0.02-3+b1 Perl extension for using UUID inte
ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
doc-base recommends no packages.
Versions of packages doc-base suggests:
ii doc-central 1.8.2+nmu2 web-based documentation browser
ii dwww 1.11.1 Read all on-line documentation wit
ii rarian-compat [scrollkeeper] 0.8.1-4 Documentation meta-data library (c
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ur doc-base-0.9.4.pristine/debian/control doc-base-0.9.4/debian/control
--- doc-base-0.9.4.pristine/debian/control 2009-09-10 18:08:45.000000000 +0100
+++ doc-base-0.9.4/debian/control 2009-10-07 14:19:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,15 +8,14 @@
Package: doc-base
Depends: ${perl:Depends}, libuuid-perl, dpkg (>= 1.14.17), libmldbm-perl
-Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter, scrollkeeper
+Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter4, rarian-compat
Conflicts: dhelp (<< 0.6.7), dwww (<< 1.10.13~)
Architecture: all
Description: utilities to manage online documentation
This package contains utilities to manage documentation installed on
- a Debian system. It contains a database of document metadata.
- Various third-party systems such as 'dwww', 'dhelp', 'doc-central'
- or 'scrollkeeper' use this data to provide a catalog of available
- documentation.
+ a Debian system. It generates a database of document metadata, which
+ other packages such as dwww, dhelp, doc-central, and rarian-compat
+ can use to provide a catalog of available documentation.
.
- If you want to get additional information about 'doc-base' please
- consult the `Debian doc-base Manual' included in this package.
+ For additional information see the Debian doc-base Manual included in
+ this package.
