[DRE-maint] Bug#892548: dhelp: /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse broken with ruby 2.5

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: unmerge 892548
Control: reassign 892548 dhelp

On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:30:11PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 00:48:59 +0300, Коля Гурьев wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this error. However, I've faced the
> > other error related to dhelp's cron script. It fails to build a document
> > index, and so search doesn't work. But at least the dhelp_parse utility
> > can rebuild its documentation directory, and a home page is still
> > available. It seems some of the next warnings aren't linked to dhelp.
> 
> Indeed, I can confirm that "my" original output is gone, and I now
> see what you've copied below.

From that output my evaluation is that dhelp has issues with ruby2.5,
even after the lack of dbm support has been fixed. I'm returning this
bug to dhelp.
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