Package: doc-base
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: normal
Consider the following transcript:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/]# DEBUG=true
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/]# export DEBUG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/]# apt-get --purge remove doc-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
doc-base*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 184kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 103699 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-base ...
entering doc-base prerm
+ case "$1" in
+ remove_all_docs
+ which install-docs
+ echo 'unregistering documentation ...'
unregistering documentation ...
[...]
+ for file in '/var/lib/doc-base/info/*.status'
++ basename /var/lib/doc-base/info/URLView Manual.status .status
basename: extra operand `.status'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
+ install-docs -r
argument missing for `remove'
+ true
The prerm script does not correctly handle .status files that contain
whitespace. Whether .status files *should* contain whitespace is
another matter; currently urlview (and possibly others) provide such
files, and basename does not handle them correctly.
To fix this, line 27 of the prerm script should be changed from
install-docs -r `basename $file .status` || true
to
install-docs -r "`basename "$file" .status`" || true
PS: line 30 of the prerm script has a grammatical error. It reads
# error because we this *is* the doc-base package
It should read
# error because this *is* the doc-base package
-- System Information:
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