Chris Tillman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:45:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> I've been trying to upgrade my system to woody. As it stands, dhelp will > >> cause a woody release to be a major embarrassment to the Debian > >> distribution. Version 0.3.23.2 has a bug which causes installations of > >> many other packages (which install help files) to complain. > >> > >> The bug is a year old, and the maintainer doesn't answer email. One > >> respondent even tracked down the dbopen call within dhelp which is > >> responsible (#109207). I believe the task falls to debian-doc, since > >> dhelp relies on install-docs and doc-base, to correct this problem. > >> > >> If nothing else, we could just back out to Version 0.3.23, which works > >> just fine on my otherwise woody system. > > > > dhelp was orphaned today, so somebody can adopt it and fix it up. > > That's great! I hope someone does adopt it. IMHO, the *idea* of dhelp is > great; just make browsing and searching the docs that are already installed > on your computer, easy. Without any web server or cgi.
Maybe it can than also be changed to use the doc-base files instead of forcing packages to have a .dhelp file. Thanks, Ardo -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://people.debian.org/~ardo PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9
