Your message dated Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:51:31 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1114610: fixed in texinfo 7.2.90-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #1114610,
regarding post-installation script failed due to incorrect processing of
/etc/environment
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Package: update-info-dir
Version: 6.8-6+b1
After an "apt-get upgrade", I got this output:
```
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up install-info (6.8-6+b1) ...
/usr/sbin/update-info-dir: 4: /etc/environment: help: not found
dpkg: error processing package install-info (--configure):
installed install-info package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
install-info
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
```
The script /usr/sbin/update-info-dir sources /etc/environment, but
/etc/environment is not a shell script.
Usually, this file is loaded by pam_env, from the man page PAM_ENV(7):
Second a file (/etc/environment by default) with simple KEY=VAL pairs
on separate lines will be read
Please note that /etc/environment does not contain any form of quoting
or escaping, nor can it contain comments.
Because the script /usr/sbin/update-info-dir sources /etc/environment,
if any of the values contains a space, it'll try executing part of it as
a command, which is not desirable.
Loading this file in a script correctly can be quiet tricky. I'm not
sure why it's done here at all, but I think the following should work:
```
exec 9<&0 </etc/environment
while read -r env
do if [ -n "$env" ]
then export "$env"
fi; done
exec 0<&9 9<&-
```
There is one more thing to consider. Some packages seam to distribute
config files stored in /etc/environment.d/.
On my system, they do not seam to get loaded, although I'm pretty sure
on distros where pam_env is built with econf support, they usually do
get loaded.
I also don't know where else /etc/environment and /etc/environment.d/
may get loaded nowadays, it's quiet possible other scripts may have
similar issues.
And I think the inconsistent use of /etc/environment.d/ in debian is a
bigger issue, a decision should be made what to do about it.
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Source: texinfo
Source-Version: 7.2.90-1
Done: Hilmar Preuße <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
texinfo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Hilmar Preuße <[email protected]> (supplier of updated texinfo package)
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:00:19 +0100
Source: texinfo
Architecture: source
Version: 7.2.90-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Hilmar Preuße <[email protected]>
Closes: 1114610
Changes:
texinfo (7.2.90-1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream (beta) version.
* Bump Standards version, no changes needed.
* Add patch from Daniel Abrecht <[email protected]> to stop
sourcing /etc/environment (Closes: #1114610).
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