* Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de> [2011-02-23 10:56:25 +0100]:
> Package: bashdb > Version: 4.2.0.6-1 > Severity: serious > > Hello, > > bashdb 4.2.0.6-1 started to ship > /usr/share/info/dir.gz > which is very likely not intentional. > > First of all, this file is usually managed by install-info and thus gets > overwritten regularly which causes bashdb's package checksums to fail. > Second, shipping this file triggers install-info to switch from plain > to a compressed Info directory format, which breaks info viewers that > cannot handle compressed dir files, like Emacs (see #543564). > Third, (re)installing or upgrading bashdb always corrupts the info > directory this way. > > The last time such bugs showed up (see #537835 and #543911) they've been > caused by an install-info transition (see Sven's comment in #543911), > maybe this helps in resolving the current issue. > > This issue persists in 4.2.0.6-2, btw. > > > Thanks for your work & regards > Mario > -- > Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. > -- Plant Manager, Delphi Corporation Right, so I had my morning coffee and put the rm rule after dh_compress as a workaround. I wonder if the install-info behavior should be directed to the attention of the TeX maintainers.
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