Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info
Hi guys,
I am a bit lost ATM what *I* have to do at the moment?
On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> dictate what's done and the other one is a wrapper. The fact that
> the install-info package decided to make it a wrapper too (as opposed to
> "patch ginstall-info to have the desired behaviour") should not change
> anything from our point of view.
Yeah, because when we have fixed up dh_installinfo we can (in squeeze+1)
ship GNU install-info as /usr/bin/ and forget anything else.
Should I edit the proposal email I sent, or is one of you making other
changes, plus the ones suggested in the last emails?
for the wrapper in /usr/sbin and / or /usr/bin? Should we have a common
code base? In fact my /usr/bin/install-info currently is only:
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if [ -z "$DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION" ] ; then
# it seems we are running from outside a maintainer script, so give a
# warning and call ginstall-info without anything else
echo "This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info" >&2
echo "See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments"
>&2
ginstall-info "$@"
else
# we are running from a maintainer script, simply ignore the call
# since we have trigger support and people should rebuild their
# package with new debhelper which does not add calls to install-info
echo "ignoring install-info called from maintainer script" >&2
echo "this package should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support" >&2
fi
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which is really simple, maybe too simplistic. But we can iron things out
on the way.
Best wishes
Norbert
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