Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.25 Severity: normal Various GNU packages handle info documents in maintainer scripts via install-info but Emdebian Grip removes those info documents, just as it removes manpages and other documentation, to save space. The files are removed from the packages and the reduced packages made available via http://www.emdebian.org/grip to handle bandwidth and temporary space issues on the devices running Grip.
Currently, Grip needs to replace install-info from dpkg with an empty script because install-info halts the entire installation if a single info document is missing. The packages themselves have the Emdebian version string (em[0-9]) suffix but have no changes to the maintainer scripts (to maintain compatibility with Debian). To simplify Grip installations, install-info needs to not halt the installation of a package merely because the info document has been removed from the package. A warning or message is not needed either - users of Emdebian Grip know that info documents and manpages are not going to exist in the Grip packages. Retaining binary compatibility with Debian does mean that individual packages can be installed from Debian where the user wants to have the extra files and apt-pinning can do the rest. update-alternatives has now gained this support and it would be much appreciated if install-info could be quiet about missing info documents whilst still supporting those Debian packages that the user may still wish to install. This would make info management as simple as manpage management where man-db really doesn't care if a package used to contain a manpage but does not contain one anymore, it just does the right thing and carries on without halting the installation. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 7.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org