reassign 39359 dpkg thanks Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 12:59:05AM +0900, Keita Maehara wrote: > > If we remove /usr/info/dir (I've experienced this twice by accident), > > all packages which use install-info will fail. And they falls into a > > very bad state complaining "install-info: failed to lock dir for > > editing! No such file or directory". We cannot install/remove them any > > more. > > > > I've repaired it by invoking /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst, > > but the current install-info method/system should be robuster. > > This indicates that the bug is not in info, but in either base-files > or in dpkg, which include base-files.postinst and install-info, > respectively. I am reassigning the bug with this message. base-files.postinst creates a new `dir' file if there is none, so I think this is already robust enough on the base-files side (unless you want base-files to install a daemon which checks this every minute and repairs it :-) I think this is the typical "don't do that, then" case, but I will let the dpkg maintainers to decide about it. Thanks. -- "d22b14be98f61117bd21f9167206a7e7" (a truly random sig)
