Re: Bug#457741: Bug#460158: zsh-doc would not install
Hi,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 11 Jan 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > This is probably true but we can't really fix install-info in etch for
> > example. So I'd suggest to patch makeinfo so that it produces info files
>
> Ok, this is an argument. I will try to update makeinfo ASAP.
Thanks.
> > We hope the same, really.
>
> We could work a bit on the transition plan. Upstream cvs already
> contains support for all cmd line options of Debian's i-i, so with the
> next release that should be settled.
>
> But then, should I create a new binary package from the texinfo source
> called "install-info" which replaces dpkg <= whatever? Should be
> essential probably?
I think it's best to have a new binary package yes. However it shouldn't
be essential IMO. We should simply update dpkg to depend on it for now.
And in the long term we might want to make packages depend on install-info
explicitely. Or maybe we can find some other solution (trigger-based
probably) so that it's auto-called by the installation of files in
/usr/share/info/ ? At that point, we can simply remove the dependency on
dpkg.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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