Hello, I am getting rather confused with the install-info changes, and what I am expected to do.
First I see: http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo which says "dpkg ships a new /usr/sbin/install-info that will call /usr/bin/install-info with the same arguments." However dpkg doesn't appear to depend on install-info, in which case how can it be sure /usr/bin/install-info will exist? So I consider the possibility that install-info is essential. It isn't. It seems though that sed depends on install-info, and sed is essential, which would imply install-info is essential too. sys11:/home/brian# dpkg -s install-info Package: install-info Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Installed-Size: 252 Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers <debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: i386 Source: texinfo Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Replaces: texinfo (<< 4.13a.dfsg.1-2) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4) Conflicts: texinfo (<< 4.13a.dfsg.1-2) Description: Manage installed documentation in info format The install-info utility creates the index of all installed documentation in info format and makes it available to info readers. sys11:/home/brian# 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!' ?] ^C Sed has: Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info dpkg is version 1.15.4.1 sys11:/home/brian# dpkg -l dpkg Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============================================================-===============================================================-============================================================================================================================================== ii dpkg 1.15.4.1 Debian package management system Why does apt-get want to remove sed? Doesn't dpkg satisfy the depends? However, despite install-info being "essential" I get a bug report #552677 which is from install-info not being found by a sbuilder. It appears to find the wrapper in dpkg but not the install-info. Also the lintian check recommended I do something similar for heimdal-doc in my package. How does this dependency ensure install-info is installed if the install-info provided by dpkg is just a wrapper to /usr/bin/install-info? Confused. So as I see it, there are several issues here: 1. apt-get bug in that it wants to remove sed for no good reason. 2. dpkg bug in that it doesn't depend on install-info. OR 2. lintian should recommend Depends: "install-info" not "Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info", as installing dpkg doesn't resolve the dependency on install-info. Thanks for any help! -- Brian May <b...@snoopy.debian.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
