#1133881 info: "info sed" dumps core

Package:
info
Source:
info
Description:
Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
Submitter:
Hilmar Preusse
Date:
2026-05-15 21:25:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1133881#5
Date:
2026-04-15 05:59:05 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I'm opening that issue on behalf of Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@simnet.is>
who's E-Mails are said to be blocked somehow.

Dear Maintainer,

  Don't file bugs upstream

   If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the upstream software
   maintainers yourself, as it is possible that the bug exists only in
   Debian. If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the
   bug upstream.

-.-

  For forwarding bug reports to upstream see:

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#forward

-.-

  I do not send reports upstream if I have to get an account there.
The Debian maintainers have one already.

  If I get a negative (or no) response from upstream, I send henceforth
bugs to Debian.

-.-

   * What led up to the situation?

  info sed

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Segmentation fault         info sed

Return value is 139.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

     no core dump

-.-

 INFOPATH=/usr/local/share/info:/usr/share/info:...

  Using "info -f sed.info" works.

  File "sed.info.gz is in /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz
#1133881#10
Date:
2026-04-15 21:16:43 UTC
From:
To:
Am 15.04.2026 um 07:59 schrieb Hilmar Preusse:
H.
#1133881#17
Date:
2026-04-15 21:29:31 UTC
From:
To:
Am 15.04.2026 um 07:59 schrieb Hilmar Preusse:

Hello Bjarni,


Of course I'm unable to reproduce the issue, neither on arm64 nor on an
unstable amd64 in a chroot.

1. Does the issue only occur for sed or for any info page you call?
2. Could you post your file /usr/share/info/dir ?

Hilmar
#1133881#20
Date:
2026-04-15 21:29:31 UTC
From:
To:
Am 15.04.2026 um 07:59 schrieb Hilmar Preusse:

Hello Bjarni,


Of course I'm unable to reproduce the issue, neither on arm64 nor on an
unstable amd64 in a chroot.

1. Does the issue only occur for sed or for any info page you call?
2. Could you post your file /usr/share/info/dir ?

Hilmar
#1133881#25
Date:
2026-04-17 09:32:03 UTC
From:
To:
Am 17.04.2026 um 03:27 schrieb Bjarni Ingi Gislason:

Forwarded for now.

Hilmar
#1133881#30
Date:
2026-04-17 10:03:27 UTC
From:
To:
Am 17.04.2026 um 03:27 schrieb Bjarni Ingi Gislason:

Forwarded for now.

Hilmar
#1133881#37
Date:
2026-04-26 17:42:40 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

Am 15.04.2026 um 07:59 schrieb Hilmar Preusse:

Hello,

according to upstream this issue was solved in a commit. Unfortunately I
can't test that patch. For now I mark that issue as solved in upstream
and will test it before new release.

Hilmar
#1133881#44
Date:
2026-05-15 21:22:50 UTC
From:
To:
Am 26.04.2026 um 19:42 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar:

Hello Bjarni,

We now have gettext 0.26 in Debian experimental, I had the chance to
build the texinfo git and I can confirm that the issue is solved.

The tag fixed-upstream tag is set, I can't do anything more, than
waiting for a next patch release.

Hilmar