Dear Maintainer, Paths with spaces for documents may be not that important for Debian package maintainers, but for system administrators, it would be nicer for such paths to: - either just work (at least as far as doc-base is concerned, dwww and friends being another matter) - or be documented as not supported and/or checked against by `install-docs --check` As the following example shows (I also made other tests with existing files), only the HTML format seems to support spaces but only in the last component of paths! Also it looks like Files patterns that do not match trigger no warning whatsoever, which could be another bug IMHO. $ $ cat test.doc-base Document: doc-base-spaces-in-paths-test Title: whatever Section: Help Format: HTML Index: /usr/local/share/doc/my non-existing path with spaces.html Files: /usr/local/share/doc/my non-existing path with spaces/*.html Format: PDF FIles: /usr/local/share/doc/my-non-existing-path with spaces.pdf Format: Text FIles: /usr/local/share/doc/my-non-existing-path with spaces.txt $ $ sudo LANG= install-docs -i test.doc-base Error in `test.doc-base', line 13: all `Format' sections are invalid. $ $ LANG=C /usr/sbin/install-docs --verbose --check test.doc-base Warning in `test.doc-base', line 8: file `/usr/local/share/doc/my non-existing path with spaces.html' does not exist. Warning in `test.doc-base', line 11: `Files' value has to be specified with absolute path: with spaces.pdf. Warning in `test.doc-base', line 13: `Files' value has to be specified with absolute path: with spaces.txt. Error in `test.doc-base', line 13: all `Format' sections are invalid. test.doc-base: Fatal error found, the file won't be registered. $