tags 604164 + patch
thanks
On 2010-11-20 21:30 +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> Package: emacsen-common
> Version: 1.4.19
> Severity: serious
>
> On a fresh squeeze install reconfiguring the package give you an error
> and an exit status of 1
>
> mnen...@poison:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure emacsen-common
> [...]
> 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 dir file specified; try --help for more information.
This can be easily solved by removing the useless install-info call in
the postinst. Alternatively, solving bug #560317 in debconf would also
be sufficient, but fixing emacsen-common is trivial in any case:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff -Nru emacsen-common-1.4.19/debian/postinst
emacsen-common-1.4.19+nmu1/debian/postinst
--- emacsen-common-1.4.19/debian/postinst 2009-02-13 07:18:08.000000000
+0100
+++ emacsen-common-1.4.19+nmu1/debian/postinst 2010-11-21 15:05:58.000000000
+0100
@@ -39,7 +39,4 @@
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install emacsen-common
-# Clean up dead emacs info entry...
-install-info --remove --quiet emacs
-
exit 0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Cheers,
Sven
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