Re: info.info document texinfo vs emacs
Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> writes:
> I think this is an excellent plan, disregarding the update-alternative
> question. I have used u-a for small sets (2/3 files) but never for
> a huge set like you are planning.
>
> What still remains open is how the
> update-info-dir
> script that updates the central dir file should work. Reading through
> your changes I guess we should in the future *ignore* all sub-directories
> of /usr/share/info, and only index those files directly in that dir. Right?
Right, at least that's what I was thinking with respect to emacs-XY/.
i.e. unless you read README.Debian, you might never even know about
/usr/share/info/emacs-XY/. By default all the tools would just deal
with the "normal" flat info pages.
Though if we think that might be problematic somehow, then it would also
be easy to keep the versioned pages in /usr/share/emacs24/info/ or
something, and use that with update-alternatives and in README.Debian.
That seems fine too, and might be less intrusive (and less likely to
break random tools that expect a flat /usr/share/info hierarchy).
> Do we make an accorded upload, do we need some cross dependencies?
> I don't see the need for it, but the one case that the emacs (doc-nonfree)
> packages should probably either conflict with texinfo-doc-nonfree,
> and/or add replaces, since the info.info.gz might be installed.
Hmm, offhand, I'd guess the simplest thing might be to let
texinfo-doc-nonfree go first, and then I'll include something like this
in emacsXY-common-non-dfsg?
Breaks: texinfo-doc-nonfree (<= LAST_VERSION_WITH_INFO_INFO)
Thanks
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Rob Browning
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