[Bug 630326] Re: [MASTER] Conflict between dpkg install-info and GNU install-info

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** Changed in: dpkg (Debian)
       Status: Unknown => Fix Released

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Title:
  [MASTER] Conflict between dpkg install-info and GNU install-info

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dpkg” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  GNU install-info (originally shipped with texinfo; now a separate
  package in Debian) and dpkg install-info are incompatible.

  Symptom:
  Package installation fails with the error message "install-info: no dir file specified"

  Workaround:
  Rename or remove GNU install-info at least temporarily.  Often it will have been installed as /usr/local/bin/install-info

  Root cause:
  dpkg pre 1.15.4 used to ship its own, incompatible version of install-info.  Various postinst etc scripts would invoke install-info with parameters which are acceptable to dpkg install-info, but incompatible with GNU install-info.  Hence, if the PATH was set up so that a locally-installed GNU install-info got invoked from the postinst script, it would fail.

  This typically happens to users who have installed a third-party
  package such as TexLive2008 in /usr/local

  As far as the upstream Debian infrastructure is concerned, an
  important milestone is dpkg 1.15.4 which was included in Karmic.  The
  fix is for dpkg to also use GNU install-info.

  However, this still fails to address the situation when an
  incompatible install-info is in dpkg's PATH before the Debian
  versions.

  See also http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo

  I'm taking the liberty to create a new bug report to collect
  duplicates reported against various packages.  This is a known
  problem, it is already fixed upstream; I just want there to be a
  central MASTER bug to collect all such reports.

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