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texinfo package

  1. Bug #993407
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 993407

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 993407] Re: install-info can fail to install due to syntax errors in /etc/environment

On Do, 10 Okt 2013, Brian Murray wrote:
> The package install-info sources /etc/environment and will fail to
> install if there are any configuration errors in that file. This
> seems to happen a fair bit.

Yes, and if we ad
 rm -rf /
into /etc/profile then we can also get bugs ...

I don't care for bugs that are misconfiguration of users. We cannot
protect users from shooting themselves ...

Norbert

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