Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed
* Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> [100915 15:54]:
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior writes ("Re: /usr/share/info/dir.gz if install-info is installed"):
> > Sounds reasonable. However sometimes package maintainer argueue that the
> > policy says "clean build environment" and having package X intalled is
> > no longer clean (thus I have a problem and buildds do not).
>
> It would be nice if there were a way for the maintainer of a package
> like install-info, which could be expected to (and is now known to)
> cause misbuilds, to declare this problem.
As this is not really a new problem and easy to check for, I'm more
surprised that is not yet catched by lintian. Or is there no lintian
run for buildd (i.e. unsourcefull) uploads yet?
Bernhard R. Link
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