Bug#538665: debian-policy: "Info documents" section is outdated
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:37:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> + The <prgn>install-info</prgn> program maintains a directory of
>> + installed info documents in <file>/usr/share/info/dir</file> for
>> + the use of info readers.<footnote>
>> + It was previously necessary for packages installing info
>> + documents to run <prgn>install-info</prgn> from maintainer
>> + scripts. This is no longer necessary. The installation
>> + system now uses dpkg hooks.
>
> Probably better to spell it as “dpkg triggers”, we might be
> implementing new features to be referred to as “dpkg hooks” in the
> future.
I knew I had the wrong term but I was blanking in the right one. Thanks,
fixed in my version.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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