Public bug reported:

System specs:
OS: Xubuntu 16.04 Xenial x86_64
Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic
libgegl-doc installed version: 1:0.3.11~0-0x0~ppa~363b1c9

Description of problem:
Received a message to perform a system update. (Note: this was with a clean and 
updated apt-cache). Elected to let the GUI perform the update. What was 
expected was a clean update, but an error message was displayed at some point 
instead. After viewing /var/log/apt/term.log, the following error was revealed.

-------- Error message begins: --------
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
Processing 1 changed doc-base file...
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/gegl', line 12: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about 
the above error.
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
-------- Error message ends: --------

Suggested action:
install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-base/gegl
-------- Results Begins -------
Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/gegl', line 12: file 
`/usr/share/doc/libgegl-doc/api.html' does not exist.
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/gegl', line 12: all `Format' sections are invalid.
/usr/share/doc-base/gegl: Fatal error found, the file won't be registered.
-------- Results End --------

1st Implied action: (check the file)
cat /usr/share/doc/doc-base/gegl
-------- Result Begins --------
Title: Debian gegl Manual
Author: gegl upstream authors
Abstract: This manual describes what gegl is
 and how it can be used to manage online manuals
 on Debian systems.
Section: Graphics

Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/libgegl-doc/api.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/libgegl-doc/gegl*.html
       /usr/share/doc/libgegl-doc/operations.html
-------- Result Ends --------
Note: 
1.) Line 12 is the last line in the results shown above.
2.) The error also mentions that the "Format" section is invalid.

2nd Implied action: (check the referenced directory for file existence).
ls -al /usr/share/doc/libgegl-doc/
-------- Result Begins --------
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root   4096 Nov  9 20:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 4180 root root 139264 Nov  5 13:08 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  25960 Nov  8 14:51 abyss_policy.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   9306 Nov  8 14:50 brightness-contrast.c.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  26201 Nov  8 14:51 bugzilla.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  27480 Nov  8 14:51 build.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   1124 Nov  8 14:40 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root root 301094 Nov  8 14:50 class-hierarchy.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  27255 Nov  8 14:51 commandline.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  28099 Nov  8 14:51 contribute.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   2216 Nov 28  2015 copyright
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  28166 Nov  8 14:51 copyright.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  36621 Nov  8 14:51 development.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   7405 Jul 19 11:17 devhelp.css
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  26349 Nov  8 14:51 editor.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  26955 Nov  8 14:51 environment.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  27446 Nov  8 14:51 features.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   7816 Jul 19 11:17 gegl.css
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4576 Nov  8 14:50 gegl.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4473 Jul 19 11:17 gegl.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4034 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-area-filter.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   3930 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-composer.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   3767 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-filter.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  18425 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4792 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-meta.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   5095 Nov  8 14:50 
gegl-operation-point-composer.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   5392 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-point-filter.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4406 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-point-render.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4000 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-sink.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   3772 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-source.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   4790 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-operation-temporal.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   6071 Nov  8 14:50 gegl-plugin.h.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  26533 Nov  8 14:51 glossary.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  28422 Nov  8 14:51 hello-world.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  29406 Nov  8 14:51 index.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  33323 Nov  8 14:51 journal.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  29175 Nov  8 14:51 operation-api.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  66542 Jul 19 11:17 operations.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  27933 Nov  8 14:51 source-overview.html
-------- Result Ends --------
Note:
1.) As can be seen. None of the files mentioned inside 
"/usr/share/doc-base/gegl" actually exist as referenced.

Closing:
I hope this report is informative enough to be helpful in some way.

** Affects: gegl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: gegl libgegl-doc

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