Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> I looked at a Yellow Dog Linux machine and noticed, however, that they had
> a texinfo 4.2 source package that builds an info package with a binary
> /usr/sbin/install-info instead of the perl version we have. Why is that
> and why don't we just NMU texinfo in sid to start building a binary
> install-info until perl 5.80's regex stops leaking memory like a sieve?
What amazes me here the most is that the first thing that pops into your
head as a solution is a non-maintainer upload.
My god, sometimes I really think we need to raise the bar even higher.
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