Bug#595876: multiboot: FTBFS in squeeze: rm: cannot remove `debian/multiboot/usr/share/info/dir': No such file or directory

[gregor herrmann]

tag 595876 = confirmed
thanks

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:15:36 +0200, Justus Winter wrote:

> > Sory for not cc'ing you in my last reply; can you reproduce this bug?
> Yes, I just rechecked and it fails on both my i386 and my x86_64
> squeeze installations with the install-info package removed.

Interesting.

Ah, now I see that I have install-info installed in my sid cowbuilder
chroot.
 
> > (And if you can: the fix would be to put
> > "dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info"
> > into the build-deps
> As I understand this, it means dpkg (>= 1.15.4) *or* install-info,
> right? The version of dpkg that is installed on my systems fulfills
> this requirement yet the package failed to build. Shouldn't the package
> build depend on both packages instead of either of them?

$ lintian-info -t missing-dependency-on-install-info
N: missing-dependency-on-install-info
N:
N:   This package appears to contain at least one info document but does
N:   not depend on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info as recommended by
N:   Policy. This dependency is needed for the transition to triggerized
N:   install-info to correctly build the info directory during partial
N:   upgrades from lenny.
N:   
N:   Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.2 (Info documents) for
N:   details.
N:   
N:   Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N:

BTW: the package already has "Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info" :)

And I confused Depends and Build-Depends-Indep in my quick mail, sorry.

So, why do I have install-info in my chroot?

I guess that's why:

belanna:/# apt-get remove install-info
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  info install-info
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  install-info (due to grep)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 659kB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'

> And the info package depends on it. I'd argue, that the multiboot
> package should depend on the virtual package info-browser instead of
> the install-info package.
> Or the dependency on anything info related could be eliminated since
> the multiboot package also contains the information in html format so it
> is still usable without an info browser. The manpages-dev package for
> example does not depend on man-browser, it merely suggests it.

Maybe, but that's out of the scope of this bug report :)
 
> > or to "rm -rf" the dir, IMO)
> As I said, I'd vote to add install-info as a build dependency since
> documentation is the purpose of this package. 

Ok ... but:

I guess I'm to tired for today: Anyway I tried now:
+ removed install-info from the chroot
- first build without install-info in the build-deps and with "rm -f"
- second build with install-info
+ both builds succeed and both packages have the identical contents

So IMO the only problem is the "rm" of the not existing file in
debian/rules (in the case without install-info). And changing this to
"rm -f" so that it works both with and without install-info would be
the easiest solution.

But I'd appreciate you checking and I will take again tomorrow.


Cheers,
gregor

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