On Do, 12 Mär 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Relying on the order inside PATH is too fragile IMO. If you want to have
> the binary as install-info directly, you'll have to wait until
> install-info is not used any more by debian packages, i.e. for squeeze+1.
Ok, let me sum up the approach as I understood it:
We will have 3 different install-info:
1) /usr/sbin/install-info from dpkg
this one will do:
. if called with absolute path, warn the user to use
/usr/bin/install-info
. if called and there is no /usr/bin/install-info give a big fat
warning and die. Or?
. Otherwise call /usr/bin/install-info "$@"
2) /usr/bin/install-info from install-info
this one will do:
. if called from within a maintainer script (! -z "$DPKG_RUNNING_VERSION")
then simply warn that the package should be updated and do nothing
. otherwise call simply ginstall-info "$@" (and maybe warn?)
3) /usr/bin/ginstall-info from install-info
the normal one
As pathes we would have
- maintainer script calls either /usr/sbin/install-info or
/usr/bin/install-info, in both cases this is detected and nothing is
done but a warning issued
- admin calls install-info and gets /usr/sbin/install-info, then simply
/usr/bin/install-info is called that in turn calls
/usr/bin/ginstall-info. (Maybe a warning that this is now GNU i-i)
- admin calls /usr/sbin/install-info: same as above, but with and
additional warning from /usr/sbin/i-i
- user calls /usr/sbin/install-info (with full path) -> as above
- user calls /usr/bin/install-info, fine, as normal
Ok, I have uploaded 4.13a.dfsg.1-2~exp04 to the usual place at
http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/i-i/ which implements that. What
is missing is the dpkg part shipping a different /usr/sbin/i-i.
So what do we do next?
Best wishes
Norbert
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