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XSubject: dpkg guidelines info files not recognized
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XPackage:  dpkg
XVersion:  1.1.5elf
X
XPerhaps this should be a bug report against info-3.7-1 instead.
XIf so, please reassign it.
X
XAfter a fairly clean debian 1.1 install, I find that the dpkg
XGuidleines info files seem to be not working.  I have the files
Xguidelines.info.gz, guidelines.info-1.gz, guidelines.info-2.gz 
Xin /usr/info, and an entry for "* Guidelines (guidelines)" in
X/usr/info/dir.  "info guidelines" produces an info screen which
Xsays:
X
X    File:  *manpages*, Node: guidelines, Up: (dir)
X
X    no manual entry for guidelines
X
X"info guidelines.info" produces similar results.
X
XSelecting the Guidelines entry from the info menu screen produces
Xthe message: "The reference disappeared! (Guidelines)"



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XOn Sun, 5 May 1996, Alan Eugene Davis wrote, in email:
X
X>I susspect if you move the line, in the file /usr/info/dir,  near the
X>bottome of the file, with "menu" in it, to near the top of the file it
X>will work ok. 
X
XAnd making that change did, in fact, make it work OK.
X
XApparently, all the additions to the /usr/info/dir file done
Xduring package installation via install-info(8) were made
Xabove that "* Menu" line, and they need to be made below it.



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XFrom: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
XTo: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>, debian-bugs@pixar.com
XCc: Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net>
XSubject: Re: Bug#2894: dpkg guidelines info files not recognized
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XOn Sun, 5 May 1996, Bill Mitchell wrote:
X
X> On Sun, 5 May 1996, Alan Eugene Davis wrote, in email:
X> 
X> >I susspect if you move the line, in the file /usr/info/dir,  near the
X> >bottome of the file, with "menu" in it, to near the top of the file it
X> >will work ok.
X> 
X> And making that change did, in fact, make it work OK.
X> 
X> Apparently, all the additions to the /usr/info/dir file done
X> during package installation via install-info(8) were made
X> above that "* Menu" line, and they need to be made below it.
X
XJust fyi, that bug has been fixed in base and install-info.
X
X
XGuy



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XSubject: Re: Bug#2894: dpkg guidelines info files not recognized
XCc: adavis@kuentos.guam.net
X
XGuy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> said:
X
X> [...]
X> > Apparently, all the additions to the /usr/info/dir file done
X> > during package installation via install-info(8) were made
X> > above that "* Menu" line, and they need to be made below it.
X> 
X> Just fyi, that bug has been fixed in base and install-info.
X
XGreat.  I think the problem occurred using whatever version of
Xdpkg was on the debian 1.1 install floppy set which I downloaded
Xlast Friday.
X
XAm I correct in thinking that all debian users who have installed
Xfrom this debian 1.1 install floppy set now have problems in their
X/usr/info/dir files? If so, is this being addressed?  If not,should
Xit be addressed?



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XFrom: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
XTo: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
XCc: debian-bugs@pixar.com, adavis@kuentos.guam.net
XSubject: Re: Bug#2894: dpkg guidelines info files not recognized
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XOn Mon, 6 May 1996, Bill Mitchell wrote:
X
X> Am I correct in thinking that all debian users who have installed
X> from this debian 1.1 install floppy set now have problems in their
X> /usr/info/dir files?
X
XYes.  Boot floppies with either dpkg-1.1.6 or base-1.1.0-7 (possibly
Xearlier) have the fix.  I don't know of an easy way to check the
Xversions of packages on the base diskettes short of making them.  A
Xlist of the contents of the boot floppies should be added to the
XFLOPPIES.readme file.
X
X> If so, is this being addressed?
X
XI posted a script in debian-user which fixes the info file.  The
Xproblem is not as simple as moving the '* Menu ...' line up,
Xunfortunately.  All the sections in the info file were of size one, as
Xinstall-info thought the file was empty each time.
X
XThe script is in the March archive, with subject 'Re: problem with
Xinfo'.  Several people have used it succesfully.
X
X
XGuy



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XTo: debian-bugs@pixar.com, maor@ece.utexas.edu
XSubject: Re: Bug#2894: dpkg guidelines info files not recognized
X
XGuy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> said:
X
X> > Am I correct in thinking that all debian users who have installed
X> > from this debian 1.1 install floppy set now have problems in their
X> > /usr/info/dir files?
X> 
X> Yes.  [...]
X> 
X> > If so, is this being addressed?
X> 
X> I posted a script in debian-user which fixes the info file.  [...]
X> install-info thought the file was empty each time.
X
XPerhaps the dpkg postinst would be a good place for such a script
X(install-info is in dpkg.deb).  The info file could be audited on
Xdpkg upgrade, and repaired at that time if needful.
X
X> The script is in the March archive, with subject 'Re: problem with
X> info'.  Several people have used it succesfully.
X
XIan J. -- what say?



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Subject: Old bug fixed

I suspect this Debian 1.1 bug has been fixed; or at least I've never heard
of it. :) In any case, it's quite obsolete now, so the bug should be
closed...

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