The call to install-info seems to be at the end of /var/lib/dpkg/info
/emacsen-common.postinst:
# Clean up dead emacs info entry...
install-info --remove --quiet emacs
But now what is "install-info"?
> type -a install-info
install-info is /usr/local/bin/install-info
install-info is /usr/sbin/install-info
install-info is /usr/bin/install-info
> /usr/local/bin/install-info --version
install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.8
>/usr/sbin/install-info --version
install-info: warning: don't call programs like install-info with an
absolute path,
install-info: warning: /usr/sbin/install-info provided by dpkg is
deprecated and will go away soon;
install-info: warning: its replacement lives in /usr/bin/.
This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
/usr/bin/install-info --version
This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.13
In the third case -- /usr/bin/install-info -- the command is a script that in
this case
called /usr/bin/ginstall-info.
Notice that /usr/bin/install-info, the script, appears to do nothing when
called with
--remove. It labels itself as a wrapper to GNU install-info designed to be
compatible
with dpkg's install-info. So perhaps the postinst script should be calling this
script -- in which case no action would be taken because the argument is
--remove.
But then it would appear that the call to install-info in the postinst script
should be
removed.
Of course, the script front in /usr/bin is not seen since PATH consistently for
/usr/local, /usr, and / places sbin in front of bin.
How much of this package is cloned from debian?
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