Re: install-info problems with DOS encoded files

To: "W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>
Cc: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: install-info problems with DOS encoded files
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:06:12 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1124887427.430c6b83c21f5@webmail.in-berlin.de> (W. Borgert's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:43:47 +0200")
References: <[🔎] 20050824124051.GY13162@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <[🔎] 1124887427.430c6b83c21f5@webmail.in-berlin.de>

"W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

> Quoting Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:
>> Is this a bug in the install-info program, or should I convert all the
>> info files to unix lineendings?
>
> The latter.

Please do it either during build in the package directories, or in the
texlive repository.  Having all these changes in diff.gz would make them
unreadable (imagine you want to patch an info file to add
Debian-specific information...)

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer

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