SWIG documentation not correctly located

[John Pye]

Binary package hint: yelp

I installed the package "swig-doc" and noted, at the end of the installation process, the output:

Registering documents with scrollkeeper...

I opened up Yelp and searched for "swig" and indeed, I got a listing. But when I clicked the link, I get an error "Could not read file" in a dialog, with the text:

The file ‘/usr/share/doc/swig-doc/Manual/index.html’ could not be read. This file might be missing, or you might not have permissions to read it.

However this file is present, and shows perfectly in firefox. There is also no permission problem, as suggested about.

This appears to be clearly a Yelp problem, as opposed to a problem with the packaging of SWIG.

Cheers
JP

PS this bug shows up in current Ubuntu 8.10.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

Isn't this related to the bug #138770?

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

In Maverick, I checked this out and noticed that after installing yelp via Synaptic Package Manager, not only did not give me a mention of registering with scrollkeeper, when I opened yelp and searched for SWIG no listings popped up.

Seems issue confirmed.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy yelp
yelp:
  Installed: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy swig-doc
swig-doc:
  Installed: 1.3.40-3ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.3.40-3ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.40-3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status