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

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your thorough reply.  There is nothing that we can do as 
maintainers regarding this bug.  I am hereby tagging this bug report, 
accordingly.

Best,

Rafael

* Mike Miller <mtmiller at debian.org> [2015-05-26 22:19]:

> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 14:53:42 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> 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
>
> Hmm, looks to me like you have remnants of octave3.2-info on your system 
> that shouldn't be there. Installing octave-info is attempting to replace 
> octave3.2-info and run its obsolete prerm. This package should have been 
> purged after squeeze and before the install-info transition period was 
> completed in jessie.
>
> Can you create a local install-info wrapper script in your $PATH before 
> /usr/bin/install-info and purge octave3.2-info and try installing again? 
> See for example [1].
>
> See [2] for full details on the install-info transition.
>
> Anyway, I can install octave-info on a clean system without any octave* 
> packages installed, I think you'll have success when octave3.2-info is 
> purged first.
>
> [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/146393/16840 
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo
>
> -- 
> mike
>
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