Package: gzip Version: 1.3.9-1 Severity: grave gzip fails to install and when you try to install other packages with apt-get it first tries to setup gzip and fails. As not every one is install-info expert grave seams to be adequate.
# apt-get install gzip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up gzip (1.3.9-1) ... install-info(/usr/share/info/gzip.info): warning, ignoring confusing INFO-DIR-ENTRY in file. No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info(/usr/share/info/gzip.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up dpkg: error processing gzip (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-vserver-k7 Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gzip depends on: ii debianutils 2.17.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries gzip recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- =*= Łukasz Pankowski =*=
