Docbook2man fails on directories with spaces

[Matthew Flaschen]

Binary package hint: docbook-utils

When I ran docbook2man in a directory path with spaces, it failed with the log:

matthew@matthew-e1505:/data/C Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc$ docbook2man apt-get.8.xml
[: 233: Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc/apt-get.8.xml: unexpected operator
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working on: /data/C Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc/apt-get.8.xml
nsgmls:E: cannot open "/data/C" (No such file or directory)
nsgmls:E: cannot find "Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc/apt-get.8.xml"; tried "Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc/apt-get.8.xml", "/usr/local/share/sgml/Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc/apt-get.8.xml", "/usr/share/sgml/Projects/apt-get/apt-0.6.45ubuntu14_new/doc/apt-get.8.xml"
cd: 392: can't cd to /data/C
Done.

It seems it isn't quoting the path.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 alpha?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Matthew Flaschen (matthew-flaschen)]

Why does it matter if it can be reproduced in 8.10? 8.04 is still supported, and the bug is still present in that release:

matthew@matthew-e1505: ~/Code/c/Directory With Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc% docbook2man apt-get.8.xml
[: 233: With: unexpected operator
basename: extra operand `Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc/apt-get.8.xml'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog
Using stylesheet: /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#print
Working on: /home/matthew/Code/c/Directory With Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc/apt-get.8.xml
nsgmls:E: cannot open "/home/matthew/Code/c/Directory" (No such file or directory)
nsgmls:E: cannot find "With"; tried "With", "/usr/local/share/sgml/With", "/usr/share/sgml/With"
nsgmls:E: cannot find "Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc/apt-get.8.xml"; tried "Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc/apt-get.8.xml", "/usr/local/share/sgml/Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc/apt-get.8.xml", "/usr/share/sgml/Spaces/apt-get/apt-0.7.9ubuntu17.1/doc/apt-get.8.xml"
cd: 392: can't cd to /home/matthew/Code/c/Directory
Done.

[Matthew Flaschen (matthew-flaschen)]

I wrote the attached patch, which seems to fix the quoting problem (though I still can't build the apt docs).