Bug#1055832: goplay: uninformative errors about Xapian

[Russell Coker]

Package: goplay
Version: 0.9.1+nmu1+b2
Severity: normal

$ goplay
Xapian DatabaseOpeningError: Couldn't stat '/var/cache/apt-xapian-index/index.1'

When I run goplay and the Xapian database is not available I get the above
error which isn't very helpful.  I think that an error about this should have
a mention of the apt-xapian-index package to point the user in the right
direction towards solving it.

Also why do we suddenly need this?  It used to run without the xapian
database, why can't it do so now?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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: unable to detect

Versions of packages goplay depends on:
ii  apt-xapian-index     0.53
ii  debtags              2.1.5
ii  libapt-pkg5.0        1.8.2.2
ii  libc6                2.37-12
ii  libcurl3-gnutls      8.4.0-2
ii  libept1.5.0          1.1+nmu3+b1
ii  libfltk-images1.3    1.3.8-5
ii  libfltk1.3           1.3.8-5
ii  libgcc-s1 [libgcc1]  13.2.0-6
ii  libstdc++6           13.2.0-6
ii  libx11-6             2:1.8.7-1
ii  libxapian30          1.4.22-1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.13.dfsg-3

Versions of packages goplay recommends:
pn  games-thumbnails  <none>

goplay suggests no packages.

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