Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote:
> I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to
> package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian
> ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy
> perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. 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?
unstable is as unstable does.
Get a clue.
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