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coreutils package

  1. Bug #38538
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 38538

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Hi Micah,

After I updated this (and asked for your input), we found that only Karmic has the fix. The 'install-info' package is new, and only available on Karmic.

And, yes, the coreutils task should -- in my view -- have been set to Invalid: install-info is *not* a coreutils package, at least nowadays; I do not know how it was before (before being < ~2008, when I started looking at coreutils issues). Now, both 'ginstall-info' and 'install-info' are in the 'install-info' package... but if I run 'ginstall-info --help' I get a "Please report bugs to <email address hidden>". Since the versions on both the texinfo package and on ginstall-info match, I would guess it was originally there.

The message issued when you run (from the command line) '/usr/bin/install-info' says:

This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
install-info: No input file specified; try --help for more information.

Whereas /usr/sbin/install-info is still the dpkg version...

So, it seems to my humble self that this is still a temporary bypass, and eventually dpkg's version will be dropped.