Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 01:45:22 +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:49:53PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Time line:
> > - inform the maintainers of info-browsers about the fact that they
> > should now depend on install-info
> > - upload texinfo with the install-info to sid
> > - upload a new dpkg with breaks against the various info-browsers
>
> This should probably be:
> - upload a new dpkg with breaks against the version of upload
> info-browsers which did not depend on install-info
Yeah.
> > - file bugs against all the info shipping packages with problematic info
> > files
>
> Maybe recommend that install-info should be called without options but the
> info files themselves should be updated.
> And --section shall be avoided (this is IIRC the most problematic option)
Just to clarify this in case it causes confusion, no maintainer script
should be calling install-info anymore.
regards,
guillem
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