package description says html is included but it seams not

[schnollk]

$ sudo aptitude install aptitude-doc-en
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$ aptitude show aptitude-doc-en | grep -a2 Description
Suggests: aptitude
Provides: aptitude-doc
Description: English manual for aptitude, a terminal-based apt frontend
 aptitude is a terminal-based apt frontend. This package contains the English
 version of the aptitude user's manual in HTML format.

$ dpkg -S aptitude-doc-en
aptitude-doc-en: /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc-en/changelog.Debian.gz
aptitude-doc-en: /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc-en
aptitude-doc-en: /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc-en/copyright
aptitude-doc-en: /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc-en/changelog.gz

Only by mere coincidence I found out, that the actual html files were droped into /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html. Could someone knowing add something like README.Debian with a pointer, add it to the package's description or let dpkg -S (or similar) list the html files with path? Or tell me how to do so / point me to some docs.

Cheers.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Marking as Wishlist bug, and I can confirm this hasn't changed in Jaunty, aptitude-doc-en version 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu1 - should it actually be in /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc-en/ and there is no easy way to access the html version, as stated.

[Geoffrey Thomas (geofft)]

schnollk, you wanted dpkg -L, not dpkg -S.

dpkg -L lists all files owned by a package; dpkg -S searches packages for owning a file name or a part of a file name -- in this case the only filenames containing "aptitude-doc-en" were /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc-en/*.

(I just installed aptitude-doc-en earlier tonight, was briefly confused, and then ran dpkg -L and figured out what was going on. So I don't disagree that the location is a bit confusing.)

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

Files have always been installed to /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en