On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:46:59PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>, 2009-11-17, 12:30:
> [...]
> > 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 sed)
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > After this operation, 258kB disk space will be freed.
> > You are about to do something potentially harmful.
> > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] ^C
> [...]
> >Why does apt-get want to remove sed? Doesn't dpkg satisfy the depends?
>
> It wants to remove install-info, not sed.

Of course it wants to remove install-info, that is because I told it to.

However install-info isn't essential, so why is it saying otherwise?
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:27:46PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> install-info is only needed to create /usr/share/info/dir and the package
> using that file should depend on install-info. install-info must not be
> installed on all systems but only on systems that have an info-browser
> installed.

Ok, so if I understand correctly, I can ignore these warnings, they don't matter?

install-info --info-dir='/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info' '/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info/heimdal.info'
install-info: warning: nothing done since /usr/bin/install-info doesn't exist,
install-info: warning: you might want to install an info-browser package.
install-info --info-dir='/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info' '/build/user-heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-4-amd64-fOXbEk/heimdal-1.2.e1.dfsg.1/debian/tmp//usr/share/info/hx509.info'
install-info: warning: nothing done since /usr/bin/install-info doesn't exist,
install-info: warning: you might want to install an info-browser package.

On the assumption I got this correct, I will change the "rm" statement to "rm
-f". I assumed install-info did more them just creating the unwanted
/usr/share/info/dir file.
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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 02:27:46PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > install-info is only needed to create /usr/share/info/dir and the package
> > using that file should depend on install-info. install-info must not be
> > installed on all systems but only on systems that have an info-browser
> > installed.
>
> Ok, so if I understand correctly, I can ignore these warnings, they don't matter?

Yes.

> On the assumption I got this correct, I will change the "rm" statement to "rm
> -f". I assumed install-info did more them just creating the unwanted
> /usr/share/info/dir file.

It does nothing else indeed:

DESCRIPTION
Add or remove entries in INFO-FILE from the Info directory DIR-FILE.

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