Hey Gregor :) > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:29:55 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > > > install-info needs to be added to the list of build dependencies or > > rm debian/$(package)/usr/share/info/dir > > removed from debian/rules. But since this is a package containing > > documentation, I'd say we should go with the first option. > > Sory for not cc'ing you in my last reply; can you reproduce this bug? Yes, I just rechecked and it fails on both my i386 and my x86_64 squeeze installations with the install-info package removed.
# dpkg -l dpkg install-info Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii dpkg 1.15.8.4 Debian package management system un install-info <none> (no description available) > (And if you can: the fix would be to put > "dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info" > into the build-deps As I understand this, it means dpkg (>= 1.15.4) *or* install-info, right? The version of dpkg that is installed on my systems fulfills this requirement yet the package failed to build. Shouldn't the package build depend on both packages instead of either of them? And I just checked and turns out that the multiboot package installed cleanly without install-info and aptitude show install-info says: [...] Description: Manage installed documentation in info format The install-info utility creates the index of all installed documentation in info format and makes it available to info readers. And the info package depends on it. I'd argue, that the multiboot package should depend on the virtual package info-browser instead of the install-info package. Or the dependency on anything info related could be eliminated since the multiboot package also contains the information in html format so it is still usable without an info browser. The manpages-dev package for example does not depend on man-browser, it merely suggests it. > or to "rm -rf" the dir, IMO) As I said, I'd vote to add install-info as a build dependency since documentation is the purpose of this package. Regards, Justus
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