On 30/10/09 at 15:36 +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:51:39AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on > > amd64. > > > > Relevant part: > > No, this is the relevant part: > > install-info > --info-dir='/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info' > > '/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info/heimdal.info' > install-info: warning: nothing done since /usr/bin/install-info doesn't exist, > install-info: warning: you might want to install an info-browser package. > install-info > --info-dir='/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info' > > '/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info/hx509.info' > install-info: warning: nothing done since /usr/bin/install-info doesn't exist, > install-info: warning: you might want to install an info-browser package. > > Do you have install-info installed? My up-to-date sid system complains loudly > if I try to remove it...
I don't have it installed, but I have sed installed. Strange. Why does sed require install-info? > sys11:/home/brian/tree/heimdal# apt-get remove install-info > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libidn11 libcurl3-gnutls > libk5crypto3 cpio ca-certificates libssl0.9.8 openssl libgssapi-krb5-2 > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages will be REMOVED: > install-info > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > install-info (due to sed) > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > After this operation, 258kB disk space will be freed. > You are about to do something potentially harmful. > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > ?] > > (actually I don't follow the logic here - install-info isn't essential and > sed's dependancy looks like it should be satisfied by dpkg 1.15.4.1 which is > installed) > > Alternatively, maybe the above is an apt-get bug, possible... > and I now need to have a build depends on install-info? I haven't really understood the install-info changes, so I won't comment on that. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
