Bug#32550: This is no longer release critical. EOD.

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

severity 9771 wishlist
thanks

Hi people,

These bugs aren't release critical for Debian anymore. This is from
dpkg's changelog:

dpkg (1.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add Zack Weinberg's install-info patch for GNU install-info
    compatibility (closes:Bug#28965).

So our install-info is now compatible with GNU install-info (in one
direction). It is not Debian's fault if someone has GNU's install-info in
$PATH before /usr/sbin/install-info - don't mess with the packaging system,
you'll just get in trouble.

Anyway, these conflicts don't happen quite so often. Debian's texinfo
package doesn't install its (GNU's) install-info binary, so the bug won't
happen with pure Debian installations.

There is still one option - rename dpkg's install-info to something
else, but there's too little gain and too much breakage of our packages
included in that. I wouldn't recommend it, but can ackgnowledge it
as a valid wish/request. Thus, I'm changing the severity of these
bug reports to 'wishlist'.

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