Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 10:37:00AM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote: >Am 30.01.2023 um 06:51 teilte Brendan O'Dea mit: >> This is still present in the unstable version of the package. You >> should probably keep this open until 7.0 gets to unstable. >> >IIRC the Debian BTS is based on versions, unless it is an RC bug. So >I'll probably forget about this bug. Please be so kind to close it, when >TInfo 7.0.x entered unstable. I'm not sure, if this will happen before >bookworm. There is no automatic promotion from experimental. It is reasonable to mark a bug as fixed/closed on successful upload to unstable, because over time that fix will make it to testing, stable, old-stable, etc without further involvement from the maintainer. You shouldn't mark a bug as fixed however when only the experimental version works, since making that fix more widely available will take an additional upload to unstable. That unstable upload should be the one which closes the bug. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing says that problems are considered fixed when "the bug fix enters the Debian archive". The experimental distribution is not "the Debian archive". >From https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ftparchives.en.html#dists: "Experimental is used for packages which are still being developed, and with a high risk of breaking your system." and "Users shouldn't be using packages from there [..]" --bod
Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
Am 30.01.2023 um 06:51 teilte Brendan O'Dea mit: Hi Brendan, On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:46:49PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote: Version: 7.0-1 Am 28.11.2022 um 23:28 teilte Barak A. Pearlmutter mit: Yes! That fixes it. Closing then. This is still present in the unstable version of the package. You should probably keep this open until 7.0 gets to unstable. IIRC the Debian BTS is based on versions, unless it is an RC bug. So I'll probably forget about this bug. Please be so kind to close it, when TInfo 7.0.x entered unstable. I'm not sure, if this will happen before bookworm. Hilmar -- sigfault
Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
reopen 1024997 ! thanks On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 11:46:49PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote: >Version: 7.0-1 > >Am 28.11.2022 um 23:28 teilte Barak A. Pearlmutter mit: > >> Yes! That fixes it. >> >Closing then. This is still present in the unstable version of the package. You should probably keep this open until 7.0 gets to unstable. This can be reproduced reliably by running: rm -f /tmp/dir[12] install-info /usr/share/info/muttrc-mode.info.gz /tmp/dir1 install-info /usr/share/info/mutt-alias.info.gz /tmp/dir2 The contents of both resulting files have garbage in them. There may be other info files which have this problem, but those were the two on my system which were corrupting the directory. Package versions: install-info 6.8-6+b1 elpa-muttrc-mode 1.2.1-3 elpa-mutt-alias 1.5-4 --bod
Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
Yes! That fixes it.
Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
Am 28.11.2022 um 15:41 teilte Barak A. Pearlmutter mit: Hi Barak, Note the strange characters here that mess up the entry: $ cat -v /usr/share/info/dir | egrep -2 '[(]emacs[)]' * Magit: (magit). Using Git from Emacs with Magit. * With-Editor: (with-editor). Using the Emacsclient as $EDITOR. ^ZM-^L}[^EM-^KM-6M-bd^E* Emacs: (emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs FAQ: (efaq).Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs. * Haskell Mode: (haskell-mode). Haskell Development Environment for Emacs(en) I've uploaded texinfo 7.0 to experimental. Could you test if that eventually solves the issue? Hilmar -- sigfault
Bug#1024997: install-info: dir entry for emacs is bolloxed
Package: install-info Version: 6.8-6+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Barak A. Pearlmutter The directory file /usr/share/info/dir entry for emacs itself is messed up, even after a clean regeneration. Note the strange characters here that mess up the entry: $ cat -v /usr/share/info/dir | egrep -2 '[(]emacs[)]' * Magit: (magit). Using Git from Emacs with Magit. * With-Editor: (with-editor). Using the Emacsclient as $EDITOR. ^ZM-^L}[^EM-^KM-6M-bd^E* Emacs: (emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs FAQ: (efaq).Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs. * Haskell Mode: (haskell-mode). Haskell Development Environment for Emacs(en) I'd also note that /usr/sbin/update-info-dir does not ignore *~ files, but it *does* ignore symbolic links. $ egrep find /usr/sbin/update-info-dir find "$INFODIR" -type f | while read file ; do $ ls -l /usr/share/info/emacs.info.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 26 2019 /usr/share/info/emacs.info.gz -> /etc/alternatives/emacs.info.gz In fact, one might wonder why the above "find" looks for anything other than *.info.gz files. One might also wonder whether install-info.c needs to be rewritten from scratch in something sane, but I digress. In any case, tracing through the construction of /usr/share/info/dir by hot-wiring update-info-dir to pause after each invocation of install-info, I found that the "bad" material is installed by processing of /usr/share/info/mutt-alias.info.gz, which is installed because emacs-goodies-el depends on elpa-mutt-alias, even though I do not have mutt installed. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'proposed-updates'), (510, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages install-info depends on: ii libc6 2.36-5 install-info recommends no packages. install-info suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
