Comment 3 for bug 10337

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:03:35 -0500
From: Patricio Rojo <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: sed: Install-info error: unable to determine description for dir

Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Package is now uninstallable, 'dpkg --configure sed' gives...
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Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
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Thanks!

          Pato

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages sed depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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