From: Roger@rilynn.me.uk   
      
   Package: doc-central   
   Version: 1.9.1   
   Severity: normal   
   File: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/contents.cgi   
      
   Hi,   
      
   When serving the contents frame, the following error is generated:   
      
   2026/02/12 11:49:21 [error] 116109#116109: *19987 FastCGI sent in stderr:   
   "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/docutils.py:104: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape   
   sequence '\.'   
     m = re.match("/usr(/share)?/info/(.+)\.info", doc.docs[format])   
   /usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/docinfo.py:19: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape   
   sequence '\.'   
     pat_paragraph = re.compile('^ \.\n', re.MULTILINE)   
   /usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/docinfo.py:21: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape   
   sequence '\.'   
     pat_url = re.compile('((http|ftp)s?://[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-./]+)')   
   /usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/docinfo.py" while reading response header from   
   upstream, client: 192.168.10.54, server: , request: "GET /cgi-bi   
   /doc-central/contents.cgi HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/   
   ar/run/fcgiwrap.socket:", host: "my.server.local"   
   , referrer: "https://my.server.local/dc/"   
   2026/02/12 11:49:21 [error] 116109#116109: *19987 FastCGI sent in stderr:   
   ":72: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\g'   
     abstract = re.sub(pat_verbatim, '
\n\g<1>
', abstract)   
   /usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/docinfo.py:73: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape   
   sequence '\g'   
     abstract = re.sub(pat_url, '\g<1>', abstract)   
   Traceback (most recent call last):   
     File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc-central/contents.cgi", line 63, in    
       print("""   
             ~~~   
       """ % docutils.scriptname("search.cgi"))   
       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~" while reading response header from   
   upstream, client: 192.168.10.54, server: , request: "GET /cgi-bi   
   /doc-central/contents.cgi HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/   
   ar/run/fcgiwrap.socket:", host: "my.server.local",    
   referrer: "https://my.server.local/dc/"   
   2026/02/12 11:49:21 [error] 116109#116109: *19987 FastCGI sent in stderr:   
   "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   
   TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting" while reading   
   response header from upstream, client: 192.168.10.54, server: , request: "GET   
   /cgi-bin/doc-central/contents.cgi HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi:   
   /unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket:",   
    host: "my.server.local", referrer: "https://my.server.local/dc/"   
      
   The page served is missing the closing body and html tags, ending with:   
      
   
Text   
   
Viewers   
      
      
   I'm sorry that I don't have the Python experience or time to debug this   
   myself at the moment.   
      
      
   When I try to use the search box at the top of the contents frame, I get   
   this error:   
      
   2026/02/12 16:07:41 [info] 116113#116113: *20511 client sent invalid request   
   while reading client request line, client: 192.168.10.54, server: , request:   
   "GET /cgi-bin/doc-central/%s?keyword=foo HTTP/1.1"   
      
   I don't know whether this is related or possibly due to a bad CGI   
   configuration on the server.   
      
   Thanks,   
      
   Roger   
      
      
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   Versions of packages doc-central depends on:   
   ii  doc-base           0.11.2   
   ii  info2www           1.2.2.9-27   
   ii  nginx [httpd-cgi]  1.26.3-3+deb13u1   
   ii  python3            3.13.5-1   
   ii  python3-debian     1.0.1   
   ii  sensible-utils     0.0.25   
      
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