Bug#626990: yelp: relative pathnames cannot be used as arguments

[brian m. carlson]

Package: yelp
Version: 3.0.1-1
Severity: normal

yelp will only open a file specified on the command line if it is an
absolute path.  Trying to open a file with a relative path results in
some warnings and no window.

This works:

  lakeview ok % yelp /usr/share/gnome/help/glchess/C/glchess.xml

This doesn't:
 
  lakeview ok % cd /usr/share/gnome/help/glchess/C/
  lakeview ok % yelp glchess.xml 
  
  (yelp:1604): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_notify: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  
  (yelp:1604): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'
  
  (yelp:1604): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_emit_valist: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
  
  (yelp:1604): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'
  
  (yelp:1604): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_emit_valist: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages yelp depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.13-4     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.0.8-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0            1.3.13-4   Web content engine library for Gtk
ii  libyelp0                      3.0.1-1    Library for the GNOME help browser
ii  man-db                        2.6.0.2-1  on-line manual pager
ii  yelp-xsl                      3.0.0-1    XSL stylesheets for the yelp help 

Versions of packages yelp recommends:
ii  gnome-user-guide              3.0.1-1    GNOME user's guide
ii  ttf-dejavu                    2.33-1     Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-

yelp suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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