Ubuntu
conduit package

Help file is not shown

Bug #332907 reported by David Planella on 2009-02-22

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Conduit	Unknown	Low	gnome-bugs #572824
	conduit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Julien Lavergne

Bug Description

Binary package hint: conduit

On the version included in Intrepid (0.3.14), the help file is not shown when using the usual Help->Contents menu entry of the application.

Having tested it on two different computers, on the first one choosing this entry has no effect at all, and on the second one yelp comes up with a message stating that the page could not be found (requested URI 'ghelp:///conduit' is invalid). Pressing F1 does not help, either.

However, the help file is in fact included in the system, as can be confirmed doing a search on 'conduit' in yelp.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/conduit

Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney) on 2009-02-22

Changed in conduit:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney) wrote on 2009-02-22:

Hi,

Confirmed your bug.

The gnome help browser produces the error

"The requested URI "ghelp:///conduit" is invalid"

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-22:

This doesn't look like a conduit bug. If I run "yelp ghelp:conduit", then it opens the help correctly. If I open "gnome-open ghelp:conduit" (which is basically what conduit does, but via the xdg-open wrapper), then I see the error you see (requested URI 'ghelp:///conduit' is invalid), which sort of suggests that the URI gets mangled by glib

Changed in conduit:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-22:

If I run "sudo sudo -H -u chr1s gnome-open ghelp:conduit" so that the GVFS daemon can't be contacted, then it works ok. So it suggests that GVFS mangles the URI

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David Planella (dpm) wrote on 2009-02-22:

What's special about the 'ghelp:///conduit' URI that the gvfsd would mangle it and still let other ones (e.g. nautilus' help) be correctly called?

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-22:

The correct URI required by yelp is "ghelp:conduit", and not "ghelp:///conduit"

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-02-23:

Thanks for sending upstream, but, like I said - this doesn't look like a bug in conduit

Julien Lavergne (gilir) on 2009-02-24

Changed in conduit:
assignee:	nobody → gilir

Julien Lavergne (gilir) on 2009-02-24

Changed in conduit:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-02-25:

This bug was fixed in the package conduit - 0.3.15-1ubuntu2

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conduit (0.3.15-1ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New bugfix revision (LP: #334087)
  * debian/patches/05-display-help.dpatch
   - Display properly the help contents (LP: #332907).
  * debian/patches/06-non-ASCII-folder-canvas.dpatch
   - Show correct folder name with non-ASCII characters (LP: #306236).

-- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:06:17 +0100

Changed in conduit:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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David Planella (dpm) wrote on 2009-02-25:

Julien,

would it be possible to get this fix on the intrepid package as well, or should we make a backport request?

Thanks.

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote on 2009-02-25:

David,

Updates for stable release is quite long and/or impossible because of the lack of interest of Ubuntu developpers, and the short delay before the new stable release. I think it would be faster to request a backport for it instead.

Sorry :(

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David Planella (dpm) wrote on 2009-02-26:

#10

Debdiff of the changes Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain)

I have created an Intrepid package which solves this bug in my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~dpm/+archive/ppa

In case it can be useful to someone, please feel free to test it. I am attaching a debdiff with the changes (they also contain the bugfix for #333178)

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2009-03-10