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Re: Bug in makeinfo or install-info?



On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:53:09PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:01:11PM +0100, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > ...
> > Unpacking replacement bzip2 ...
> > Setting up bzip2 (1.0.3-7) ...
> > install-info(/usr/share/info/bzip2.info): warning, ignoring confusing INFO-DIR-ENTRY in file.
> > 
> > No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
> > install-info(/usr/share/info/bzip2.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up
> > dpkg: error processing bzip2 (--install):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > 
> > The problem is with bzip2.info, produced by makeinfo during the building
> > process.
> 
> A very similar bug hit librep-doc about a week ago (#451265) and, just
> today, sawfish (#456791) It was cloned as #451268 and supposedly solved on
> Nov 14, but it seems to have come back.

I have confirmed that rebuilding sawfish with texinfo/4.11.dfsg.1-3
solves the problem. Rebuilds of the affected packages (but I have no
idea which are those) should be scheduled after that version of
texinfo is installed in all arches (currently arm, hppa, s390 and
sparc are building, and m68k is in dep-wait).


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