Re: MBF: transition from texi2html to texinfo
Am Dienstag, den 28.05.2013, 22:45 -0400 schrieb Ryan Kavanagh:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 05:08:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > There have been two responses to your proposal so far, neither of
> > which particularly looks to be in favor of your plan. I don't think
> > it's reasonable to proceed with a mass-bug filing on over 800 packages
> > as a first step, certainly not after such a short comment period.
>
> Sorry, I was overly eager in pushing this change. Thanks Steve for being
> the "tempering voice of reason".
>
> As for the package count, where did you find the additional 700+
> packages? If I'm missing something, please let me know. Of matches in
> the search[0] Paul Wise linked to, many matches are from the same
> package, or more prominently (as with e.g., festival, gcc, geiser,
> id-utils, gcl, etc.), found in the upstream build system but never
> called at build time (one can deduce this from the fact that they don't
> build-depend on texi2html). As I stated in my initial email, there are
> at most 96 packages which would require some form of change, and these
> are the packages that either build-depend (94) or depend (2) on
> texi2html.
Have you checked indirect build-dependencies on texi2html (e.g. the
package build depends on foo, which depends on texi2html)?
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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