docs subdirectory missing, installation fails

[Daniel Robitaille]

Binary package hint: liblog4j1.2-java-doc

initially reported using reportbug

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Didier Frick <email address hidden>
To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:25:28 +0200
Subject: liblog4j1.2-java-doc: docs subdirectory missing, installation fails
Package: liblog4j1.2-java-doc
Version: 1.2.12-1ubuntu2
Severity: normal

Installation fails with:

cannot create dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/liblog4j1.2-java-doc/docs/.dhelp': Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
(No such file or directory)

After manually creating the directory like this:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/doc/liblog4j1.2-java-doc/docs

installation completes succesfully

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers dapper-updates
 APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper-backports'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-23-686
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- no debconf information

[Aldous Peñaranda (dous)]

I tried to install this package a couple days ago, I think, and it didn't fail on me. I confirmed another bug that says this package didn't contain the API documentation.

[Ian McCall (ian-eruvia)]

Confirmed for me - two different machines, x86 desktop version, 6.0.6.

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

This error ocurs when you have doc-base installed (the postinst execute install-docs and failed due to the missing directory).
Confirming.

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

This is fixed in edgy