Bug#213524: marked as done (dpkg: new install-info creates serious breakage, see #213524)
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From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
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Subject: automake: serious breakage with new install-info behaviour
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Package: automake1.7
Version: 1.7.7-1
Tags: upstream
Severity: important
In the most recent dpkg package, "install-info --version" now shows its
output on stdout, not stderr.
As a result, this code in /usr/share/automake-1.7/am/texinfos.am
does not work as expected anymore:
## Only run this code if install-info actually exists, and it is not
## the Debian install-info. FIXME: once Debian install-info goes
## away, we can remove this hack. Debian install-info v1.8.3
## prints version info to stderr.
##
## Do not use
## install-info --version 2>&1 | sed 1q | grep -s -v -i debian
## as if install-info does not exist, grep -v will be happy, and
## therefore the code will be triggered although install-info is missing.
@if (install-info --version && \
install-info --version | grep -i -v debian) >/dev/null 2>&1; then list='$(INFO_DEPS)'; \
for file in $$list; do \
since install-info now works even if it's Debian install-info.
[ See bugs #213494 or #213495 to see the kind of breakage this produces ].
The code in texinfos.am should ideally be written in such a way that
it does not depend on Debian install-info showing its output on stderr
or stdout. If this is not easy or possible, then it should be adapted
to the new behaviour.
[ Please forward this bug upstream ].
Thanks.
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Subject: re: #213524: automake: serious breakage with new install-info
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I'm not fixing this bug. automake should not be doing what it is doing, as it
was bound to fail. automake was depending on questionable, and wrong
behaviour, and it's not surprising it died as it has.
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