Subject: Bug#3218: install-info adds Miscellaneous section badly

From: Buddha Buck <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 22:02:12 -0400

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.0

As installed by the base package, /usr/info/dir ends with a line saying
"General Commands"

Using the install-info command from the acct package post-inst script
(with the --quiet flag removed), install-info adds two new sections, an
"Administration" section and a "Miscellaneous" section.

However, the /usr/info/dir file now ends with the line
"Miscellaneous:General Commands".  I believe that the ":General
Commands" is erroneous, and shouldn't be there.

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     Buddha Buck                      [email-masked]
"She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were
like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of
stallions."  -- Ezekiel 23:20

--
     Buddha Buck                      [email-masked]
"She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were
like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of
stallions."  -- Ezekiel 23:20

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 02:23 BST

> As installed by the base package, /usr/info/dir ends with a line saying

Can you send me this file, please ?  I think there may be something
wrong with it.

> Commands" is erroneous, and shouldn't be there.

There is a bug here in install-info, namely a missing \n after the
colon of `Miscellaneous:'.

I think there is a bug in the base dir file too, which is why I'd like
a copy of it.  I've fixed the bug in install-info, it will be in dpkg
1.2.4.

Ian.