[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#786888: Fails to install

[Christoph Egger]

Package: octave-info
Version: 3.8.2-4
Severity: serious

Hi!

octave-info fails to install:

$ dpkg -i octave-info_3.8.2-4_all.deb 2>&1 | tee /tmp/octave
dpkg: considering removing octave3.2-info in favour of octave-info ...
dpkg: yes, will remove octave3.2-info in favour of octave-info
(Reading database ... 608326 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack octave-info_3.8.2-4_all.deb ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing archive octave-info_3.8.2-4_all.deb (--install):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave-info_3.8.2-4_all.deb


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages octave3.2-info depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.17.24
ii  info          5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
ii  install-info  5.2.0.dfsg.1-6