Bug#370733: grub-doc: error on upgrade (doc-base)

[Arthur Petitpierre]

I had the same problem installing grub-doc for the first time on
testing :

cadmium:/home/arthur# aptitude install grub-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-doc
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 267kB of archives. After unpacking 901kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main grub-doc 0.97-5 [267kB]
Fetched 267kB in 0s (675kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package grub-doc.
(Reading database ... 99084 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub-doc (from .../grub-doc_0.97-5_all.deb) ...
Setting up grub-doc (0.97-5) ...
error in control file: `Index' value missing for format `info'
at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 709, </usr/share/doc-base/multiboot> line
13.
warning: file mask `/usr/share/info/grub.info-*.gz' does not match any
files at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 723, </usr/share/doc-base/grub>
line 14.

Trying to purge the package throw out the following error :

cadmium:/home/arthur# aptitude purge grub-doc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  grub-doc{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 901kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 99131 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub-doc ...
error in control file: `Index' value missing for format `info'
at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 709, </usr/share/doc-base/multiboot> line
13.

I can reproduce it so tell me if you want some more information.

Arthur.