#983881 icewm-common: missing html files for icehelp

Package:
icewm-common
Source:
icewm
Description:
wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
Submitter:
Richard Wurth
Date:
2021-03-02 18:45:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#983881#5
Date:
2021-03-02 18:43:09 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

After installing IceWM, I was reading through the manpage for icehelp(1) and noticed a few of the options don't work.

Specifically, the options -B, -i, and -s do not work because they are looking fot html files that are not installed with the Debian package. Example output:

rkw@debian:~$ icehelp -s
13:33:02.403: icehelp: Invalid path: /usr/share/doc/icewm-common/icesound.1.html
13:33:02.404: icehelp: Path does not refer to a file.

The issue persists as well through the "Start Menu" path of Start > Settings > Help > [Icewm(1)|IcewmBg(1)|IceSound(1)]

I tried building icewm from git and installing to /usr/local/ and found that the issue did not persist, so I believe there is a situation somewhere in the Debian package that prevents the html file versions of the icewm manpages from being generated. Building from source creates html files for each of the manpages.

I saw the earlier bugs of #793771 and #810286 which seemed to describe a similar situation regarding the IceWM manual which has since been resolved.

Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide.

Thanks for your time in reviewing this report.