Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 05:30:39AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 04:26:02 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 22:24:43 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > > Does Lenny includes this trigger ?
> > > >
> > > > > Did you consider what will when a partial lenny to squeeze update is made ?
> >
> > Yes, most of the plan has been drafted with the idea of inflicting
> > minimal disruption.
> >
> > > > 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 ?
> >
> > The info files are not usually ‘readable’ w/o an info-reader. The new
> > info-reader Providing packages will Depend on the install-info package,
> > so they will get a generated dir when installed. And the first dpkg
> > version to stop shipping the real install-info will Break all old
> > info-readers versions not Depending on the install-info package. Does
> > this resolve your concerns?
>
> Actually, no, I guess it does not. In case the user has no upgraded
> dpkg nor any of the info-readers, the user could upgrade a info
> providing package and that would not call install-info anymore (in
> this particular case things would probably just work, as the info dir
> section is already on the dir file, but not for new info files, or
> renamed files).
Yes this was my point.
> So there's several options that come to mind for that:
>
> * We don't care, and expect users might miss docs on the dir file in
> some cases or need to upgrade dpkg or any of the info-readers.
> * Make info providing packages depend on install-info.
> * Make info providing packages Break old dpkgs.
> * Not remove calls to install-info from packages until squeeze+1
> (and make install-info wrappers not warn in some conditions).
>
> Probably the sanest and safest is the last one, but slowest and with
> less immediate benefits. OTOH not registering some docs on the dir
> file is not that grave, as they will get readded whe upgrading.
> So I'd go for the "we don't care", but would not mind being more
> conservative.
Since all packages that use install-info need to be changed, options 2)
seems doable, and since install-info used to be provided by dpkg it even
makes sense. I do not have experience with the behaviour of Break during
upgrade (with aprt or aptitude) to comment on 3)
The point is that we are introducing a potential breakage during upgrade.
In this instance it is rather trivial, but when triggers are used for more
critical things like boot-loaders, this should be documented and prevented.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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