Hello, On 08/07/13 17:01, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Hi! > > While working on the new mpich package, I am experiencing some problems > related to doc-base and gzipped PDF files. There are three such files, but > I'll focus on one of them to explain the problem. > > The mpich-doc package contains /usr/share/doc/install.pdf.gz, which is an > installation guide. In the package source, I have a file > debian/mpich-doc.doc-base.install, which contains the text: > > ****************************************** > Document: mpich-install-guide > Title: MPICH Installer's Guide > Author: Pavan Balaji et. al. > Abstract: Describes how to obtain and install MPICH. > Section: Programming/C > > Format: PDF > Files: /usr/share/doc/mpich-doc/install.pdf.gz > ************************************* > > This seems to work well during installation of the package, with no error > messages. When mpich-doc is installed, I can access the file by running > dhelp, going to the appropriate section, and clicking on the correct link. > Firefox will then ask me what do do with the *.pdf.gz file, and I ask it to > open it with evince, which works fine. > > But here comes the problem: When I uninstall mpich-doc, I get the following > error message: > > ************************ > Invalid format PDF for mpich-install-guide (MPICH Installer's Guide) > ************************** > > Does the doc-base system not support gzipped PDF files? In the doc-base > documentation, I see several other examples of gzipped files, e.g. *.ps.gz, > *.dvi.gz, *.info.gz, *.txt.gz and *.sgml.gz. >
Are you working with dh tools suite? If yes, have you tried to let them to manage the compression part ? > Best regards > Torquil Sørensen Best wishes, Jerome > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
