Package: doc-base Version: 0.8.7 Severity: normal I'm not sure what the severity of this should be or whether it should apply to doc-base or dhelp instead. The program seems to install correctly, but there is an unhandled exception being thrown in Ruby code.
The error is most likely caused by using an uninitialized variable. An easy solution would be to test the abstract function (in dhelp) as, def abstract return '' if @abstract.nil? @abstract.strip end alternatively, you can write, def abstract @abstract.strip rescue '' end The error message follows, Preparing to replace doc-base 0.8.6 (using .../doc-base_0.8.7_all.deb) ... NoMethodError: undefined method `strip' for nil:NilClass (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:178:in `abstract' (erb):42:in `export_section_page' (erb):34:in `each' (erb):34:in `export_section_page' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:92:in `export_section_page' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:42:in `export' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:41:in `each_pair' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp/exporter/html.rb:41:in `export' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:121:in `main' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/commandline/application.rb:250:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/commandline/application.rb:269:in `__set_auto_run' /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:90) Unpacking replacement doc-base ... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages doc-base depends on: ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-15 A free electronic cataloging syste doc-base recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
