Your message dated Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:39:32 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#47255: dpkg: install-info is making a mess on my dir
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has caused the Debian Bug report #47255,
regarding [INSTALL-INFO] install-info: duplicates and out-of-order entries
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.13
Severity: normal
install-info seems to get completely confused by info files with more than one
entry (like the ones from some devel packages). This is a sample (from my dir
file):
* readelf: (binutils)readelf. Display the contents of ELF format files.
* size: (binutils)size. List section sizes and total size
* strings: (binutils)strings. List printable strings from files
* strip: (binutils)strip. Discard symbols
* c++filt: (binutils)c++filt. Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols
* cxxfilt: (binutils)c++filt. MS-DOS name for c++filt
* addr2line: (binutils)addr2line. Convert addresses to file and line
* nlmconv: (binutils)nlmconv. Converts object code into an NLM
* windres: (binutils)windres. Manipulate Windows resources
* dlltool: (binutils)dlltool. Create files needed to build and use DLLs
* Stabs: (stabs). The "stabs" debugging information format.
* Standards: (standards). GNU coding standards
* strings: (binutils)strings. List printable strings from files
* strip: (binutils)strip. Discard symbols
* c++filt: (binutils)c++filt. Filter to demangle encoded C++ symbols
* cxxfilt: (binutils)c++filt. MS-DOS name for c++filt
* addr2line: (binutils)addr2line. Convert addresses to file and line
* nlmconv: (binutils)nlmconv. Converts object code into an NLM
The out of order entries are no real problem -- the problem is the duplicate
entries (seems they weren't removed correctly), but having them in the right
order (which might mean splitting entries from the same info file most of the
time) would help.
A fixup-mode to order things again (including the sections themselves) and
remove duplicates or entries without the corresponding info files (leftovers
from failed removes) would fix the bug if applied before and after each change.
Having a mode like this (and running it on dpkg's postinst) would help to clean
up the current mess on unstable systems too (it would be a special install-info
mode then).
Of course, this brings back the question whether dir shouldn't be a /var file
maintained by dpkg and not an unmanaged created-on-that-install-two-centuries-
ago stray file. The way it is currently makes it way too hard to change the
introdutory text after the file has been created the first time.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux cesarb1 2.2.12 #1 Sun Aug 29 16:07:07 EST 1999 i386
unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libncurses4 4.2-3.4 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.15.4
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, [email protected] wrote:
> install-info seems to get completely confused by info files with more than one
> entry (like the ones from some devel packages). This is a sample (from my dir
> file):
This seems to be corrected with GNU's install-info, I tried installing
several infos files including binutils.info and I could not reproduce it.
I expect that dpkg's install-info might have been confused by the + in the
c++filt entry.
Anyway closing the bug now that dpkg's install-info is gone.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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