[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#851269: nagios3-doc: Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/nagios3', line 9: all `Format' sections are invalid.

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: nagios3-doc
Version: 3.5.1.dfsg-2.2
Severity: normal

# apt install nagios3-doc
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Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/nagios3', line 9: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error.

$ /usr/sbin/install-docs --verbose --check /usr/share/doc-base/nagios3
Warning in `/usr/share/doc-base/nagios3', line 9: file `/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs/docs/index.html' does not exist.
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/nagios3', line 9: all `Format' sections are invalid.
/usr/share/doc-base/nagios3: Fatal error found, the file won't be registered.
$ ls -la /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs/docs
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 13 10:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 17:57 images
$ 


Note that i don't have nagios3 installed at all.

Regards,

        --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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