On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >On 2014-10-31 14:35, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > >>>On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > >>>>Because of this dependency line > >>> > >>>This issue is back again, now with > >>> > >>>bash > >>> _update-info-dir > >>> texinfo > >>> perl > >> > >>This is a side effect of the fact that I switched to cygport for > >>packaging when I took over as texinfo maintainer. cygport (correctly) > >>detected perl as a dependency because texinfo provides perl scripts. In > >>fact, the most important program in texinfo is /usr/bin/makeinfo, which > >>is a symlink to a perl script. > >> > >>I'll wait for guidance from above before doing anything about this. > > > >Fedora splits out texinfo into 3 packages: > > > >1) texinfo: makeinfo, texi2any, pod2texi, /usr/share/texinfo, > >/usr/share/info/texinfo* > > > >2) info: info, infokey, install-info, /usr/share/info/info* > > > >3) texinfo-tex: texindex, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, pdftexi2dvi, > >/usr/share/texmf*/tex/texinfo > > > >In this setup, only 'info' would be required by _update-info-dir and should > >not > >have any Perl dependencies. texinfo would be in 'Devel' and would have Perl > >dependencies, while texinfo-tex would also have texlive dependencies. > > Sounds good to me. I'll repackage within a few days. Thanks.
We need to make sure that the existing dependencies to texinfo are still correct afterwards. 22 packages are affected: _update-info-dir a2ps autoconf all of them automake all of them cygport docbook2X indent Looks rather harmless, but still something to look into. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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