Bug#593706: install-info breaks dpkg
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Package: install-info
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: critical
The tool /usr/bin/install-info breaks the configuration in dpkg as dpkg
uses install-info internal (dpkg, debconf, dpkg-reconfigure, I am not
sure which exactly but that makes no sens either). The configuration on
newly installed systems will not be finished as the error brakes the
configuration step.
I was able to reproduce this bug not only on debian than also on ubuntu
(the LTS version).
The bug is easily to fix. Just rename /usr/bin/install-info to
/usr/bin/broken-install-info and everything works well as the
/usr/sbin/install-info too is used now.
The result of this very critical bug is a completely unconfigured system
after new install.
The bug happens independent if installed with debian-installer or
debootstrap or complete by hand.
Please note that the bug is there for some time now and I am not sure
when it was issued. If I know correctly even stable is concerned.
However, oldstable was fine.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'stable'), (60, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages install-info depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
install-info recommends no packages.
install-info suggests no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/
pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
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