Re: Bug#528877: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Guillem Jover [2009-05-17 04:15]: > Dropping calls to install-info is something that we should probably > only ask maintainers to do once the new install-info and dpkg packages > are in testing. We should probably detangle those two steps in the wiki > timeline. Thanks, this answer my question

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > * dpkg vendor env settings. > > Now that Raphaël has implemented the dpkg-vendor program, those vars > can be disabled w/o any problem. Done. > * Build flags env settings. > > Raphaël mentioned on IRC that we could wait a bit for this, but I >

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > I have sent out bug reports to all the packages shipping info files > without dir section. Thanks. > I have added a usertag: texinfo-transition from prein...@debian.org to > find these bugs. It doesn't look like so, the following page is empty: http

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 05:30:39AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 04:26:02 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 22:24:43 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:54:35PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 May 2009, Bill Allom

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 17 May 2009 16:20:41 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * Build flags env settings. > > > > Raphaël mentioned on IRC that we could wait a bit for this, but I > > think we rather stop exporting them now so that no more > > maintainers start relying on them. We can always reenable them >

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So there's several options that come to mind for that: > > > > * We don't care, and expect users might miss docs on the dir file in > > some cases or need to upgrade dpkg or any of the info-readers. > > * Make info providing packages depend on

Re: Transition from dpkg to GNU install-info

2009-05-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 17 Mai 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It's the prein...@logic.at apparently: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=prein...@logic.at;tag=texinfo-transition Ups, right, probably forgot to set the From correctly. > > Next is I guess sending bug reports to info browsers that th

Re: Next upload 2009-05-18 (dpkg 1.15.1)

2009-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > Because use of dpkg-architecture - by definition - is not the default > and therefore that it is one way of setting the environment variables > necessary for non-standard builds, i.e. cross-builds. Yes, but we export the variables in all cases and not on

Re: Bug#528892: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:50:32PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > So there's several options that come to mind for that: > > > > > > * We don't care, and expect users might miss docs on the dir file in > > > some cases or need to upgrade dpkg