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Bug#593706: marked as done (install-info breaks dpkg)

Your message dated Wed, 25 May 2011 10:31:01 -0500
with message-id <20110525153101.GA3208@elie>
and subject line Re: install-info breaks dpkg
has caused the Debian Bug report #593706,
regarding install-info breaks dpkg
to be marked as done.

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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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Hi,

Klaus Ethgen wrote:

> I know I should not do so but I forward this answers to debian-devel
> too

Thanks for asking for the help of others.  Honestly I see hot heads on
both sides, and I don't see much use in rebuking anyone here except for
their communication style.

As for the bug: unfortunately it looks like a patch without the
corresponding problem described.  I am closing it with this message
because I think the easiest course would be to forget about it and
file a new one.

Klaus, please see [1] and [2] for vaguely related context.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/9771
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/543992

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