texinfo: cannot install: update_ls_files not found

Bug #28113 reported by Debian Bug Importer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
texinfo (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
texinfo (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Daniel Holbach

Bug Description

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #346352 http://bugs.debian.org/346352

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:06:49 +0100 (CET)
From: "Giuseppe Sacco" <email address hidden>
To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <email address hidden>
Subject: texinfo: cannot install: update_ls_files not found

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.8-3
Severity: important

Today I updated my sid box, as I do every week, and got this
problem configuring the package:

eppesuig3:~# dpkg --configure --pending
Configuro texinfo (4.8-3) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texinfo.postinst: line 56: update_ls_files: command not
founddpkg: errore processando texinfo (--configure):
 il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di
errore 127Sono occorsi degli errori processando:
 texinfo
eppesuig3:~#

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT)

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii tetex-bin 3.0-13 The teTeX binary files
ii tex-common 0.14 Common infrastructure for
using an

texinfo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:53:04 +0100
From: Philipp Meier <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Fix for texinfo.postint

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Line 73 in texinfo.postint reads "...update_ls_files" and must read
"...update_lsr_files".

- -billy.

- --
Philipp Meier - <email address hidden>

A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q: Why is top posting bad?
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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 10:55:27 +0000
From: Mark Brown <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: This is RC

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severity 346352 serious
thanks

Failure to install is an RC problem. I can reproduce this problem on
both PowerPC and i386. Looking at the source package I'm guessing that
this is just a typo for update_lsr_files()?

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"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20060108091308.9158.3922.reportbug@box>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:43:08 +0530
From: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: texinfo: same problem reproduced/resolved

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.8-3
Followup-For: Bug #346352

Had the same issue on my system, reporting just the for record.

## Error ##
Setting up texinfo (4.8-3) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texinfo.postinst: line 56: update_ls_files: command not found
dpkg: error processing texinfo (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Setting up at (3.1.10) ...
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 texinfo
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
##End Error ##

After changing 'update_ls_files' to 'update_lsr_files'.

## Fixed ##
$ apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up texinfo (4.8-3) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time. ... done.
## End Fixed ##

Thank you Giuseppe Sacco and Philipp Meier.

--arky

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii tetex-bin 3.0-13 The teTeX binary files
ii tex-common 0.14 Common infrastructure for using an

texinfo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:40:26 +0000
From: Dirk Weigenand <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: texinfo: post installation script calls wrong function: update_ls_files

Package: texinfo
Version: 4.8-3
Followup-For: Bug #346352

Should call update_lsr_functions in line 56 instead.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-rc7
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages texinfo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-31 The teTeX binary files

texinfo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

 texinfo (4.8-3ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/texinfo.postinst:
     - changed occurrence of update_ls_files to update_lsr_files.
       (Debian: #346352).

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:09:11 +0100
From: Norbert Preining <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#346352: texinfo: cannot install: update_ls_files not found

On Sam, 07 Jan 2006, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/texinfo.postinst: line 56: update_ls_files: command not
> founddpkg: errore processando texinfo (--configure):
> il sottoprocesso post-installation script ha restituito un codice di
> errore 127Sono occorsi degli errori processando:
> texinfo
> eppesuig3:~#

Gi�liminato questo sbaglio con 4.8-4 (vedi #346340 e #346343).

Grazie per informarmi e scusca per le noie

Norbert

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