Preconfiguring: No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #326037 http://bugs.debian.org/326037

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #326037 http://bugs.debian.org/326037

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Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:34:57 +0200
From: boris <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Preconfiguring: No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'

Package: sed
Version: 4.1.4-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

# apt-get -u upgrade
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up sed (4.1.4-3) ...

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)

this looks like the #281601 Bug wich was closed last year.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc7-git3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages sed depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

sed recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Clint Adams (clint)]

> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
> install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description

Do you have a /usr/share/info/sed.info file?

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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:40:44 -0400
From: Clint Adams <email address hidden>
To: boris <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#326037: Preconfiguring: No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'

> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
> install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description

Do you have a /usr/share/info/sed.info file?

[Clint Adams (clint)]

> Yes but its empty:
> ls -l /usr/share/info/sed.info
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2004-11-17 12:57 /usr/share/info/sed.info

Any idea where it came from?

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 09:19:18 -0400
From: Clint Adams <email address hidden>
To: boris mogwitz <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#326037: Preconfiguring: No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'

> Yes but its empty:
> ls -l /usr/share/info/sed.info
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2004-11-17 12:57 /usr/share/info/sed.info

Any idea where it came from?

[Clint Adams (clint)]

> OK ... when I delete /usr/share/info/sed.info and do
> # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.4-3_powerpc.deb
> everything works as expected!

Okay.

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:53:53 -0400
From: Clint Adams <email address hidden>
To: boris mogwitz <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#326037: Preconfiguring: No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'

> OK ... when I delete /usr/share/info/sed.info and do
> # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.4-3_powerpc.deb
> everything works as expected!

Okay.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Closed upstream