I submitted an MR to https://salsa.debian.org/tex-team/texinfo/-/merge_requests/13 with the solution proposed in this thread.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM Mitchell Augustin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > could you provide your /etc/environments file? > > I'm not Daniel, but if you just need a reproducer for the issue with > sourcing, a minimal repro is to add an unquoted variable with > semicolons in your /etc/environments, such as this: > root@envtest:~# cat /etc/environment > PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin" > MY_LIST=1;2;3;4;5 > > and then attempt to `apt install` any program. You should then see: > dpkg: error processing package install-info (--configure): > installed install-info package post-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 127 > > > Please let me know if there is any additional context I can provide > here to further assist you in deciding how to address this bug. > > Thanks, > Mitchell Augustin > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM Mitchell Augustin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > This still seems to be an issue for some applications. Have there been > > any discussions on the Debian side about adjusting the handling of > > /etc/environment here? > > > > -- > > Mitchell Augustin > > Software Engineer - Ubuntu Partner Engineering > > Email:[email protected] > > Location:United States of America (Central Time) > > > > > > canonical.com > > ubuntu.com > > > > -- > Mitchell Augustin > Software Engineer - Ubuntu Partner Engineering > Email:[email protected] > Location:United States of America (Central Time) > > > canonical.com > ubuntu.com -- Mitchell Augustin Software Engineer - Ubuntu Partner Engineering Email:[email protected] [email protected] Location:United States of America (Central Time) canonical.com ubuntu.com
