Hello Norbert,
Sorry for not answering before and thanks a lot for your work on this
topic.
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:49:53PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> Time line:
> - inform the maintainers of info-browsers about the fact that they
> should now depend on install-info
> - upload texinfo with the install-info to sid
> - upload a new dpkg with breaks against the various info-browsers
This should probably be:
- upload a new dpkg with breaks against the version of upload
info-browsers which did not depend on install-info
> - file bugs against all the info shipping packages with problematic info
> files
Maybe recommend that install-info should be called without options but the
info files themselves should be updated.
And --section shall be avoided (this is IIRC the most problematic option)
> Open questions:
> - the file trigger should be mentioned in the policy
> - review of update-info-dir script
I remember there could be some issue with emacs info files (because they
are installed in sub-directories?)
I will try to review update-info-dir next week.
Best Regards,
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Nekral
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