Hello Again, On 08/07/13 17:34, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > On 08/07/13 17:10, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> 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 ? > > Yes, I'm using the dh tools. I'm not manually doing anything to those files > debian/rules, so I guess those files are compressed automatically by > dh_compress, which I can see is being run near the end of the package build > procedure: > > . > . > . > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tmac/src/debian/mpich/mpich' > dh_installexamples -O--parallel > dh_installman -O--parallel > dh_perl -O--parallel > dh_link -O--parallel > dh_compress -O--parallel > dh_fixperms -O--parallel > dh_strip -O--parallel > dh_makeshlibs -O--parallel > dh_shlibdeps -O--parallel > . > . > . > > - Torquil >
I would give a try with debian/mpich-doc.doc-base.install renamed debian/mpich-doc.doc-base (namaley without the .install extension). Otherwise I would give a try with the following entry in debian/mpich-doc.doc-base Files: /usr/share/doc/mpich-doc/install.pdf Note that one can force dh_compress not to compress through the exclude option: override_dh_compress: dh_compress --exclude=install.pdf You may try this approach in last resort. Finally, I suggest to give a less generic name to the `install.pdf' file, something as `mpich-install.pdf'. Jerome > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
