[Debichem-devel] Bug#982958: libopenbabel-doc: index and shtml doc files are compressed and unviewable

[Drew Parsons]

Package: libopenbabel-doc
Version: 3.1.1+dfsg-4
Severity: important

libopenbabel-doc has registered its docs with doc-base.
The link is not usable in a browser, however, since the index file is
gz-compressed,
/usr/share/doc/libopenbabel-dev/html/index.shtml.gz

In fact all shtml files are compressed.

My guess is that the gz compression is done not by the upstream build
but automatically by dh_compress. dh_compress documentation says it
skips .html. It might be fixed by adding

override_dh_compress:
        dh_compress -X.shtml
	
to debian/rules. (would need to check if the .shtml.gz compressed
files are referenced anywhere else)

Drew


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libopenbabel-doc depends on:
ii  libjs-jquery  3.5.1+dfsg+~3.5.5-7

libopenbabel-doc recommends no packages.

libopenbabel-doc suggests no packages.

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