Bug#599686: install-info: update-info-dir should not fail if /usr/share/info/dir does not exist
Package: install-info
Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
When testing d-i, if there are no info documents unpacked by the time something
calls update-info-dir, the entire d-i base install process fails.
It would be much better if update-info-dir at least checked that
/usr/share/info
exists as a directory (creating it if not) and not worry about the dir file as
it only moves it aside as dir.old anyway.
This is a particular problem with the use of d-i for Emdebian and it would be
very much appreciated if this could be fixed for Squeeze
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages install-info depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
install-info recommends no packages.
install-info suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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