Removal of install-info from dpkg
Hi!
To finish up the install-info split from dpkg[0], I'd like to finally
remove the temporary wrapper from dpkg. This means the remaining tail
of packages still calling it directly from maintainer scripts need to
be dealt with [1]. Most might just need a rebuild if using debhelper
and not hardcoding the call in the maintainer scripts. But then many of
these do seem like candidates for orphaning, given the last maintainer
upload (see below). I'll file bug reports for the ones that don't have
one yet, and bump the severity to serious once a dpkg dropping
install-info is in sid.
[0] <http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo>
[1] <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/install-info-used-in-maintainer-script.html>
The “dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info” dependency can also be dropped
from packages providing an info file, because all info-browsers are
now guaranteed (due to the release) to Depend on install-info. I'll
file a bug on debhelper and lintian for that.
Affected packages (last maintainer upload; last NMU; bug report)
=================
automake1.9-doc (2006-08)
axe (2006-01; 2010-03 NMU)
bison++ (2006-05)
bookview (2006-11)
cutils (2004-08)
docbook2x (2008-09; #603322)
elib (2002-04; 2006-06 NMU; #689773)
gperf (2007-05; 2010-08 binNMU; #642513)
jacal (2008-02; 2008-07 NMU)
jargon (2005-09)
libiksemel-dev (2008-01)
mboxgrep (2005-03)
miscfiles (2008-02; #603967)
nana (2008-06)
opt (2003-12; 2008-03 NMU)
scm (2008-07; 2011-02 NMU)
t-code (2009-02)
trueprint (2006-09)
uucp (2009-03)
xzgv (2008-07)
yiyantang (2006-08; 2008-01 NMU)
dd-list
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Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
mboxgrep
Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>
docbook2x (U)
Daniel Leidert (dale) <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>
docbook2x (U)
Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org>
docbook2x
Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org>
automake1.9-nonfree
GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org>
bookview
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
cutils
Henrique Haas <medelin@gnoia.org>
trueprint
Hwei Sheng Teoh <hsteoh@debian.org>
axe
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>
gperf
Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>
elib
Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>
bison++
Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
nana
NOSHIRO Shigeo <noshiro@debian.org>
t-code
Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org>
opt
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
docbook2x (U)
Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy@debian.org>
uucp
Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
jargon
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@minaslivre.org>
libiksemel
Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
xzgv
Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@debian.org>
jacal
miscfiles
scm
W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org>
docbook2x (U)
Yu Guanghui <ygh@debian.org>
yiyantang
Thanks,
Guillem
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