Description of problem: The first Info file owned by maxima, "/usr/share/info/maxima.info", is not a valid Info file. It also contains many non-printing unicode control characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): maxima-5.41.0-1.fc27.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf reinstall maxima Actual results: install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/maxima.info' Expected results: (no warning) Additional info: You can verify this yourself by downloading and extracting the rpm from Koji: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=11773898 Additional info (start and end excerpts from "maxima.info"): This is maxima.info, produced by makeinfo version 5.1 from maxima.texi. Indirect: maxima.info-1: 73 maxima.info-2: 1003574 maxima.info-3: 2003607 Tag Table: (Indirect) Node: Top264 Node: Introduction to Maxima16137 Node: Bug Detection and Reporting22950 Node: Functions and Variables for Bug Detection and Reporting23192 ... ... Node: Only symbols can be bound2381318 Node: Operators of arguments must all be the same2381728 Node: out of memory2382568 Node: part fell off the end2383741 Node: undefined variable during plotting2384028 Node: VTK is not installed2385164 Node: Warning messages2385671 Node: undefined variable during translation2385890 Node: replaced x by y2386520 Node: Function and Variable Index2387343 End Tag Table
It is possible "maxima.info" was split into multiple files: "/usr/share/info/maxima.info", "/usr/share/info/maxima.info-1", "/usr/share/info/maxima.info-2", "/usr/share/info/maxima.info-3".
It's likely the omission of 'info dir entry' may or may not be intentional, but it means that running install-info in a scriptlet is not useful, so we can probably omit that from packaging
maxima-5.41.0-3.fc27 pvs-sbcl-6.0-54.fc27 sbcl-1.4.2-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4f8105f55e
maxima-5.41.0-3.fc27, pvs-sbcl-6.0-54.fc27, sbcl-1.4.2-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4f8105f55e
maxima-5.41.0-3.fc27, pvs-sbcl-6.0-54.fc27, sbcl-1.4.2-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Fedora 36 has the same problem. ```bash [fedora36@localhost ~]$ sudo fix-info-dir /usr/share/info Backed up dir to dir.old. install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-client-server-use-case.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-crypto-layers.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-handshake-sequence.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-handshake-state.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-internals.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-layers.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-logo.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-modauth.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `gnutls-x509.png.gz' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `maxima.info' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `maxima-index.lisp' install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `pkcs11-vision.png.gz' 17 total menu item(s) were inserted into /usr/share/info/dir [fedora36@localhost ~]$ ```
@rdieter Would u pls reopen this bug for Fedora 36? maxima-5.45.1-2.fc36.x86_64
(In reply to XIbo Ning from comment #7) > @rdieter > > Would u pls reopen this bug for Fedora 36? > > maxima-5.45.1-2.fc36.x86_64 May I suggest that open a new bug and link to this? I can understand that it makes sense to reopen a bug that was not completely fixed. But after 9 releases (the difference between f27 and f36) it is not obvious at first that this is the same cause. :-)