"sudo apt-get install gtkboard" fails. From Universe, version 0.11pre0-3

Bug #1141 reported by el
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gtkboard (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu GNOME

Bug Description

Ubuntu 5.04 using KDE as desktop
(converted to KDE through apt-get install kde..

Ubuntu 5.04 using KDE as desktop
(converted to KDE through apt-get install kde... I don't know if that's Kubuntu, anyhow, this seems like a bug in the .deb package)

vinko@tichy:~/ $ sudo apt-get install gtkboard
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gtkboard
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 358kB of archives.
After unpacking 1114kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/universe gtkboard 0.11pre0-3 [358kB]
Fetched 358kB in 5s (68.2kB/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package gtkboard.
(Reading database ... 138781 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gtkboard (from .../gtkboard_0.11pre0-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gtkboard (0.11pre0-3) ...
error in control file: `Format' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs
line 715, <IN> line 17.
dpkg: error processing gtkboard (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gtkboard
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Changed in gtkboard:
assignee: nobody → gnome
status: New → Fixed
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