Bug#237245: install-info: breaks maintainer scripts at least of tar and xemacs21-support
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.19
Severity: grave
Justification: breaks installation of other packages, of which tar is essential
The install-info program seems to have changed its syntax
incompatibly. This morning, I got an error from tar's postinst, later
also from xemacs21-support's postinst and prerm. This is the error
message for tar:
Unpacking replacement tar ...
Setting up tar (1.13.93-2) ...
install-info: No such file or directory for General Commands
dpkg: error processing tar (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
tar
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
alhambra:~#
xemacs21-support gives the same message in postinst, in prerm it is:
Removing xemacs21-support ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
The command line in tar's postinst is:
install-info --quiet --section "General Commands" "General Commands" \
/usr/share/info/tar.info.gz
Issued manuall by root, it gives the same error, even without
--quiet. It hasn't changed since woody, so I doubt the error is in
tar. Commenting out these lines helped (dpkg --configure -a was
successful after that), but that can't be a general solution.
Regards, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.19 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0-bunk-2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux alhambra 2.4.25 #1 Mit Feb 18 16:41:07 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
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