Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

Am 02.02.2023 um 18:33 teilte Sven Joachim mit:

Hi Sven,

Sorry, if I keep debian-release in Cc, it is probably out of scope of
this list. Let me know if I should stop posting here.

> I had a look at some of these logs, and all cases appear to be tripping
> over the following change mentioned in texinfo's NEWS file.
>
> ,----
> | 7.0 (7 November 2022)
> | * texi2any
> |  . HTML output:
> |      . use manual_name_html as output directory for split HTML instead of
> |        manual_name or manual_name.html
> `----
>
> Which seems to rather gratuitously break existing Makefiles left and
> right.  Actually it surprises me that only 15 packages FTBFS due to that
> incompatible change, there will likely be other cases where HTML
> documentation silently goes missing. :-(
Thanks this hint!

I'm not sure if all packages do not pre-define the output directory. For
example octave uses the option -o instead of assuming a constant output
dir. At least for diffutils this solves the issue.

Hilmar
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