Re: trigger question for texinfo/install-info
On Sa, 14 Mär 2009, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Perhaps we are having some kind of desperate misunderstanding here.
> I was going to ask whether you were actually a package maintainer but
> I see from Maintainers that you are.
Yes I am, I am the one packaging texlive, probably currently the only
one here fully active. And the one packaging texinfo, and several other
packages.
> I hadn't previously looked at this manpage. I had assumed that it was
> just a copy of triggers.txt.gz with extra formatting. However I see
> that it's not.
Right. It is a bit useless.
> I think that deb-triggers(5) in its current form is not useful.
> Worse, it is a blind alley because it will appear in search results
> but not even contain a reference to the full specification. I have
> filed a bug asking for it to be removed.
100% agreed, thanks for filing a bug.
> > - trigger files can be made package specific (like all others) using
> > debhelper and package.triggers
> > - that dh_installdeb is the responsible dh call
>
> This kind of thing is something that a package maintainer should
> either know or be able to find out easily. If you were aware of
I found it out, but if the man-pages of the relevant packages document
something strange/out-of-date it is a bit misguiding.
> triggers.txt.gz then didn't that answer your question ?
No, triggers.txt.gz does not mention package.triggers. That is the
reason I asked you. I did read the stuff.
Best wishes
Norbert
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