Debian Bug report logs - #2973
install-info created 5 Development sections in my /usr/info/dir

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Message #10 received at 2973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Scott K. Ellis" <storm@anexis.com>

To: 2973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: install-info created 5 Development sections in my /usr/info/dir

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:43:47 -0400

> install-info seems to have messed up the formatting of my /usr/info/dir
> file.  Namely, there are 5 Development sections.
> 
> I believe the problem started recently, because the .old is from a
> package I recently installed.  Then again ... who knows?

Didn't this get fixed some time ago?  I seem to remember some discussion
on it, but I could, of course, just be insane.

Message #15 received at 2973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: rjs@lloke.dna.fi (Riku Saikkonen)

To: 2973@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old install-info bug

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:36:26 +0300

I suspect this bug is an instance of bug #2894, which has either been fixed
or is obsolete (comes from some few Debian 1.1 bootdisks). So I guess this
could be closed or merged to #2894...

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From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 2973-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:00:13 +0100 (CET)

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This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
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Message #25 received at 2973@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

To: 2973@bugs.debian.org, 3125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: status of these reports

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:25:04 +0100

Hello,

Report: 2973
Status: Open, (can be closed). Please merge with 3125.
Analyse: install-info seems to add multiple development sections.
Strategy: This is discussed and fixed in #3125.

Report: 3125
Status: Open, (can be closed). Please merge with 2973.
Analyse: install-info adds multiple sections with same name.
Explanation:
 Kim sent in a fix for this, which is already in dpkg source. No problem.
 But IanJ thought it would be a good idea to fix already broken files.
 So a script was written to do that (merge existing sections with same
 name). This script is included in the bug log.
Strategy:
 Make a decision between following two possibilities:
 i) Drop the idea of fixing broken dir files. This problem is from May 1996,
    and it is probably more risk to break existing good dir files with this
    operation than fixing still broken ones (who has info/dir files from 1996?)
 ii) Include the fixing script in dpkg and call it from dpkg postinst, in
    case we are updating from an old version.
 My personal favourite is i), because in the last three years the problem
 has most probably vanished all by itself.

Thanks,
Marcus

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