Bug#1127091: /usr/sbin/update-info-dir: Post-install processing of /etc/environment does not tolerate comments

Preuße, Hilmar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex
Message-ID <3b4bff62-1626-464a-896c-61f42dc72e51__43710.2364887082$1770368245$gmane$org@web.de>
Am 06.02.2026 um 04:43 schrieb Huey Chen:

Hello,

> `update-info-dir` from post-installation of texinfo returns `/usr/ 
> sbin/update-info-dir: 22: export: # /etc/environment: bad variable 
> name`. This occurs with a shell-style comment with a "#".
> 

There are really people outside testing experimental....

I'll have a look ASAP, thanks!

H.
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