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Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files



On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Does Lenny includes this trigger ?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Did you consider what will when a partial lenny to squeeze update is made ?
> 
> Yes. If the new texinfo/install-info is installed it will work on the 
> triggers. Packages that are old will call install-info which is a wrapper
> and will do nothing. If the old install-info/texinfo is installed then
> the normal install-info procedure is called.

What happens if a new package is installed but not the new install-info ?

> No, I checked the source code just now, and it does not produce any
> dir entries. I will file a bug against that, but that is somehow
> bad.

Thanks for that.

> There is an option to postprocess the .texi file and simply sed-in the
> direntry, but that is not the optimal solution, definitely.

Agreed!

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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