Broken sed 4.1.2-2 package?

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #281794 http://bugs.debian.org/281794

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Message-ID: <000001c4cceb$3cf7a520$0100a8c0@amd>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:20:17 +0100
From: "Christofer Algotsson" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Broken sed 4.1.2-2 package?

Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2

By doing a apt-get update, followed by apt-get upgrade this happened.

# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  dnsutils libdbd-mysql-perl libldap2 libopencdk8 lynx mtr php4 php4-cgi
php4-pear tcptraceroute
The following packages will be upgraded:
  console-data ezmlm-src libssl-dev libssl0.9.7 openssl vim vim-common
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 1143kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for
`dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
#

Please note that when this error first occurred I was unable to report bug,
there for "1 not fully installed ro removed", however --pending --configure
reports the same - see below.

# dpkg -D2000 --pending --configure
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for
`dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
#

Machine is running Debian 3.1 (Testing) on a i586- Compaq Proliant -server
with a vanilla kernel and apt version 0.5.27.

Yours sincerely,
Christofer Algotsson

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:29:27 +0200 (EET)
From: era eriksson <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Merging 4.1.2-2 install-info bugs

severity 281794 grave
severity 281830 grave
merge 281740 281794 281830
thanks

In fact this was apparently fixed in 4.1.2-3 but it's not in testing yet.

I don't have the guts to close the bug but at least I can merge these.

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This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10337.

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:32:15 -0500
From: Clint Adams <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: once again

These are still duplicates of #281601.