Jeremy, I think you've made a mistake :(. It would help if we had a
one-line explanation for why you a) confirmed the bug (including your OS
version and desktop environment) and b) reassigned it. For myself, I
will try to clarify - it's a bit messy.
What I started to report was that this link didn't work on my system.
But that wasn't a bug. The link didn't work because that documentation
wasn't installed - because I'd deliberately chosen not to install it.
That's cool.
yelp then tried to find out which package I need to install, if I want
to read that documentation:
Search for packages containing this document
I clicked on it, but got
The files could not be found in any package
The bug is that last line. [I believe that installing the ubuntu/gnome
user manuals does "fix" the link - I've certainly seen it working at
some point. So in theory it should be possible to reproduce by
uninstalling the ubuntu/gnome manual.]
As a disclaimer, it might be relevant that, despite running under GNOME,
the installer that appeared to deliver this error message was
KPackageKit, not the GNOME PackageKit. I don't know how the URL "ghelp
:gnome-help?a11y#a11y" is supposed to be resolved to a specific package.
In fact, I don't know how that error message could be generated at all.
I believe APT doesn't know what files are in a package until you install
it. My speculation is that PackgeKit assumes a system like YUM (RPM),
which has built-in support for searching the files of uninstalled
packages.
Ooh... I see there actually is an apt-file command that can do this. I
wonder how it works. But it's not present on my current minimal
install. So that's another possibility - but if it's really the case
that apt-file was necessary, and PackageKit is searching for packages
anyway, it seems like it ought to offer to install that first.
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orca help: the link at the start to "Universal Access Help" does not
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