Bug#164495: dpkg: install-info - last entry (coreutils) in /usr/share/info/dir missing n/l
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: normal
Hi,
Coreutils was installed as the last entry in the dir file,
unfortunately, the record for coreutils was not terminated by a
newline.
This confused the hell out of me when I tried to use the command
line info program to display the coreutils info.
After I edited the newline in, then info worked as expected.
Here is a diff between my edit and the one install-info mangled,
--- /usr/share/info/dir.~1 2002-10-09 19:15:51.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/share/info/dir 2002-10-09 19:15:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -178,12 +178,8 @@ GNU programming tools
support script.
System Utilities
-* cfengine Reference: (cfengine-Reference.info). Cfengine is a language based
-* cfengine Tutorial: (cfengine-Tutorial.info). Cfengine is a language based
* Cfengine-Reference: (cfengine-Reference). GNU Cfengine Reference.
-* cfengine Reference: (cfengine2-Reference.info). Cfengine is a language based
* Cfengine-Tutorial: (cfengine-Tutorial). GNU Cfengine Tutorial.
-* cfengine Tutorial: (cfengine2-Tutorial.info). Cfengine is a language based
Texinfo documentation system
* Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation
@@ -280,3 +276,4 @@ General Commands
* Mtools: (mtools). Mtools: utilities to access
DOS disks in Unix.
* GNU Utilities: (coreutils). GNU Utilities.
\ No newline at end of file
+
I also edited out those cfengine entries by hand, but I had
previously reported this as a bug against cfengine, as BTS
Bug#157335. I haven't yet heard from the cfengine developer about
this one.
Thanks,
--
Jeff Sheinberg
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/sarge
Kernel Version: Linux l1.bsrd.net 2.4.19-1 #1 Sat Aug 24 17:01:11 EDT 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.4 a user tool to manage Debian packages
ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
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