Re: Intention to re-write /usr/sbin/install-info
Hi,
>>"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:
Brandon> If a user ignores your warnings not to install this on a non
Brandon> 2.0 system (this is the part I forgot), and they remove a
Brandon> package from 1.3 that has a call to install-info, there will
Brandon> be an error. The probability of this happening is about
Brandon> 0.1%, and it is against our suggestions, so you have it
Brandon> covered.
Right. We make it very hard to install it on a non-2.0 system
(like having it depend on a dpkg that is not provided in a non
2.0 machine). (We could make it even harder, by having the initial
experimental version have a spurious dependency on libc6-dev [let 'em
try installing that on a pre-2.0 machine ;-]. Or even harder, by
having the pre-inst chack whether dpkg is old and has an ancient
install-info).
I would at this point volunteer writing this new dinstall-info
script, except
a) Someone already volunteered
b) Since install-info currently is in dpkg, it would need
coordination with dpkg maintainers (Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson)
who also may want to be the ones writing the new script.
c) Judy and I just got a signed contract to buy a house, and we are
looking at remodelers, movers, furniture stores, etc, and slowly
going insane ;-), I would hate to have this interfere.
I do have tons of ideas on this, anyway, modeled on
menu. Klee? Ian? The erstwhile volunteer, whose name I have forgotten
(bad, bad manoj)?
manoj
waiting to revolutionize install-info
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Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
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