Bug#67174: install-info updates the wrong dir file

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

reassign 67174 dpkg
thanks

The problem with the dir file in tetex was fixed long ago, but the
problem with install-info remains anyway. If you think there is no bug
with install-info, please close the bug.

Christoph

Rickard Westman writes:
 > Josip Rodin wrote:
 > 
 > > reassign 67174 tetex-bin
 > (...)
 > > tetex-bin package, which installed /usr/share/info/dir.gz file, is at 
 > > fault here.
 > 
 > I don't think it's right to reassign this bug to tetex-bin.  That package
 > may have some related bug (I don't have it installed, so I don't really
 > know) but the bug described in this report concerns the install-info 
 > script, which is part of the dpkg package.  
 > 
 > install-info is supposed to be used whenever a package is installed which 
 > includes documentation in info format.  The purpose of this script is to 
 > update the "dir file" which contains meta-info about all info files in a 
 > given info directory.  With the current Debian file system standard, info 
 > files are stored in /usr/share/info, whereas the buggy install-info script 
 > updates the dir file in /usr/info (the location of info files in older
 > releases of Debian.)  Thus, info files are installed in the right location,
 > but the wrong dir file is updated.  
 > 
 > The effect is that an info reader which just looks in the standard info 
 > directory, /usr/share/info, will present an incomplete top-level menu.  
 > On the other hand, an info reader which just looks in the old standard 
 > location (emacs19 is an example) will present menu items for info files 
 > which it can't find.