Python-rpy-doc not installable

Bug #2012 reported by Ian Helgesen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
rpy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

Attempting to update the python-rpy-doc package results in the error "E: python-rpy-doc: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2".

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Ian Helgesen (helg0116) wrote :

This is on the latest version of Breezy. Forgot to mention that in the original report.

Changed in rpy:
assignee: nobody → motu
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Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Does it still occur?

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Ian Helgesen (helg0116) wrote :

It appears to be fixed.

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Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch) wrote :

Instead we get..
Unpacking python-rpy-doc (from .../python-rpy-doc_0.4.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Setting up python-rpy-doc (0.4.3-1ubuntu1) ...
cannot create dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/python-rpy-doc/manual_html/.dhelp': No such file or directory

on a fresh install of it - the manual_html directory is missing

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Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Strange, I just installed it on breezy:

$ sudo apt-get install python-rpy-doc
Password:
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  python-rpy-doc
0 mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 27,0ko dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 184ko d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Réception de : 1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe python-rpy-doc 0.4.3-1ubuntu1 [27,0kB]
27,0ko réceptionnés en 0s (101ko/s)

Préconfiguration des paquets ...
Sélection du paquet python-rpy-doc précédemment désélectionné.
(Lecture de la base de données... 78664 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)Dépaquetage de python-rpy-doc (à partir de .../python-rpy-doc_0.4.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Paramétrage de python-rpy-doc (0.4.3-1ubuntu1) ...

A missing dependency? Ajmitch, do you have dhelp installed? I don't.

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Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch) wrote :

No, and it looks to be something with the dh_installdocs call in postinst.
/usr/share/doc-base/python-rpy-doc.doc-base refers to :
Index: /usr/share/doc/python-rpy-doc/manual_html/index.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/python-rpy-doc/manual_html/*.html

The problem is that the package seems to install nothing into that directory

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

This appears to be fixed in Dapper. The package install correctly, and for a fresh install a series of html files are installed in
/usr/share/doc/python-rpy-doc/manual_html/

Changed in rpy:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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