Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info
Hi Karl!
On Son, 21 Mai 2006, Nicolas François wrote:
> I intent to make the patch, but won't be connected until the end of the
> month, so if somebody wants to do it, please do.
I take a look, but I have a conference at the end of the month, so my
time is limited ...
> What I think has to be done for --section is:
> * detect if there are 2 arguments to the --section option
> * detect if this second argument is a file
> ("install-info --section section info-file dir-file" is a GNU install-info
> command line, it should not be taken as a dpkg command line:
> "install-info --section regex section info-file")
> Of course if a file exists with the same name as the section, this
> algorithm doesn't work. But it doesn't seems to happen according to my dir
> file.
Karl, what do you think. Would this be acceptable to be merged into
install-info?
Best wishes
Norbert
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