Martin Costabel wrote:
> Robert T Wyatt wrote:
> []
>> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
>> install-info(/sw/share/info/accounting.info): unable to determine 
>> description for `dir' entry - giving up
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing acct (--configure):
>>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> This account.info file from acct is indeed rotten. Looking at cvs logs, 
> it seems to me that this package has been dead since May 2003 in the 
> days of 10.2, but for some reason the corpse hasn't been buried but 
> carried over to all subsequent Fink releases. I wonder if any of those 
> who copied and renamed its info file in the CVS repository ever tried to 
> install it.


Fair enough. Is there a way to get apt-get to quit thinking that it 
needs to be installed? I can't remove it because it's not installed but 
apt-get -f install thinks that it needs to be (which affects apt-get's 
behavior). Perhaps one of the fink purge commands might do it?

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