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and subject line Re: Bug#281600: /usr/sbin/install-info: install-info violates
the principle of least surprise
has caused the Debian Bug report #281600,
regarding [INSTALL-INFO] tries to get backup from /var, but sometimes this is
the wrong thing
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.23
Severity: minor
File: /usr/sbin/install-info
install-info tries to do the right thing by getting the backup from
/var/backups/infodir.bak but somtimes this is not a good thing (eg the
dir file gets corrupted you want the delete it and regenerate). I am
unsure how to fix it. Perhaps a command line switch? Or barring that
maybe this behaviour should be documented in the man page.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.23 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1.15.4
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.10.23
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/sbin/install-info
>
>
> install-info tries to do the right thing by getting the backup from
> /var/backups/infodir.bak but somtimes this is not a good thing (eg the
> dir file gets corrupted you want the delete it and regenerate). I am
> unsure how to fix it. Perhaps a command line switch? Or barring that
> maybe this behaviour should be documented in the man page.
GNU's install-info doesn't use that backup file, so closing this bug now
that dpkg's install-info has been removed.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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