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and subject line python2.3 and python2.1 are no longer in Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #399433,
regarding python-doc: woody -> sarge upgrade leaves broken info entries
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Package: python-doc
Version: 2.3.5-2
Severity: normal
Some time ago I upgraded python-doc from woody to sarge under aptitude.
This quite properly performed two steps: (1) remove python2.1-doc, no
longer needed since marked as auto-dependency of python-doc; and (2)
install python2.3-doc.
Unfortunately, the postrm of woody's python2.1-doc (version 2.1.3-3)
is bugged: it does not do its "install-info --remove" correctly. It
has bugged lines like
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-lib.info
instead of
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/python2.1-lib.info
I don't know if this bug was ever fixed for sarge's python2.1-doc
(2.1.3dfsg-1sarge1), but even if it was, that isn't really enough.
Systems such as mine, which uninstalled woody's python2.1-doc without
upgrading it first, won't pick up the bugfix. They will forever have
broken entries in /usr/share/info/dir.
In short: because of the bug in woody's python2.1-doc, the woody -->
sarge upgrade of python-doc is broken. I assume the same would be true
of woody -> sid upgrades (not officially supported, of course).
Perhaps python-doc could clean up this mess? It could have a preinst,
say, which does something like
# clean up possible cruft left behind by woody's python2.1-doc (bug #XXXXXX)
if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-info ]; then
for f in lib ref api ext tut dist;
do if [ ! -x /usr/share/info/python2.1-${f}.info.gz ]; then
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/python2.1-${f}.info
fi;
done;
fi
To explain the problem, here are details of the bug in python2.1-doc. I
haven't filed a bug against 2.1, since it's on the way out.
Package: python2.1-doc
Version: 2.1.3-3
synopsis: broken 'install-info --remove' in prerm script
The six info pages installed by the postinst with this code block
if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-info ]; then
install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
--description="Python 2.1 Library Reference" \
/usr/share/info/python2.1-lib.info
#install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
# --description="Python 2.1 Macintosh Modules" \
# /usr/share/info/python2.1-mac.info
install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
--description="Python 2.1 Reference Manual" \
/usr/share/info/python2.1-ref.info
install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
--description="Python/C 2.1 API Reference Manual" \
/usr/share/info/python2.1-api.info
install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
--description="Extending & Embedding Python 2.1" \
/usr/share/info/python2.1-ext.info
install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
--description="Python 2.1 Tutorial" \
/usr/share/info/python2.1-tut.info
install-info --quiet --section "Development" "Python" \
--description="Distributing Python Modules (2.1)" \
/usr/share/info/python2.1-dist.info
fi
are not removed by this broken code block from the prerm
if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-info ]; then
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-lib.info
#install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-mac.info
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-ref.info
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-api.info
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-ext.info
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-tut.info
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/PVER-dist.info
fi
since PVER is not a variable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages python-doc depends on:
ii python2.3-doc 2.3.5-3sarge2 Documentation for the high-level o
-- no debconf information
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python2.3 and python2.1 are no longer in Debian so I'm closing this bug
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