Package: bashdb
Version: 4.2.0.6-1
Severity: serious

Hello,

bashdb 4.2.0.6-1 started to ship
        /usr/share/info/dir.gz
which is very likely not intentional.

First of all, this file is usually managed by install-info and thus gets
overwritten regularly which causes bashdb's package checksums to fail.
Second, shipping this file triggers install-info to switch from plain
to a compressed Info directory format, which breaks info viewers that
cannot handle compressed dir files, like Emacs (see #543564).
Third, (re)installing or upgrading bashdb always corrupts the info
directory this way.

The last time such bugs showed up (see #537835 and #543911) they've been
caused by an install-info transition (see Sven's comment in #543911),
maybe this helps in resolving the current issue.

This issue persists in 4.2.0.6-2, btw.


Thanks for your work & regards
   Mario
-- 
Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule.
                                -- Plant Manager, Delphi Corporation

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