Hello,
dpkg's install-info has some bugs and limitations.
There were plans to switch to the GNU's texinfo after Sarge. Do you think
it can still be done?
I started thinking about what would involve such a transition:
* check what is missing/incompatible in GNU's install-info
* contact info's m
Hi,
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:35:51AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
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> Maybe others could post here if and when they will be there and if they
> would like to invest time in hacking on dpkg. I know I could also
> extract this information from the particpants list on the debconf page,
> but ch
Hello Ian,
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:14:17PM -0700, you wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I am also quite frustrated with the bugs in install-info and the
> continuing fork. But I really don't like the GNU version either (it
> seems to still do nothing about aligning the descriptions, for
> instance),
I
Hello,
The patch has been committed (it's quite big, so you won't receive the
notification for revision 338).
I tested it by building the package with and without and comparing the
content of the debian directory.
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Hello,
Just to keep you informed, as every one seems to agree on using the GNU
instal-info in Debian, the plan (discussed a little bit at DebConf) is to
first patch install-info to support the dpkg's install-info options:
i.e. mostly the --section and maybe --remove-exactly (maybe the
behavior of
Hi,
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:50:22PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Karl!
>
> On Son, 21 Mai 2006, Nicolas François wrote:
>
> > What I think has to be done for --section is:
> > * detect if there are 2 arguments to the --section option
> > * detect if
Hello,
I'm keeping in CC the people who participated in the previous discussions:
* GNU's install-info upstream
bug-texinfo at gnu.org
Karl Berry
Eli Zaretskii
* Debian's texinfo maintainer
Norbert Preining
* debhelper (dh_installinfo) maintainer
Joey Hess
* dpkg maintainers
Hi Ian,
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:28:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
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> Are there any people with extensive outstanding patches to dpkg
> including particularly dependency algorithm changes ? I ask because
> the Breaks patch is likely to be quite large and I want to avoid
> conflicts.
Not my
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:08:30PM +0900, KISE Hiroshi wrote:
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> I am trying update the translation of Japanese man pages.
[...]
> Please tell me how to change encoding Japanese man pages.
>
> 1. modify man/ja/Makefile.am only
> 2. modify all man/po4a/*/*.cfg
> 3. 1 and 2
> 4. others
Only
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:55:28PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> (originally sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I gather that didn't go through).
>
> I notice that Mike Stone's bug regarding GNU's "new" multiple
> dir-section format (#180127) has gone untouched for a very long time.
>
> In the meantime
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:02:38AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
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> Hi, I'd like to call attention to a specific bug which seems fairly
> bite-size in nature, and has possibly gone unfixed only due to being
> hidden amongst the many other bugs in the BTS
>
> URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-b
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:53:06AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > There has also been, IIRC, some exchanges with Ian Jackson. Probably
> > more could be done here.
>
> I'm rather worried that there's been no apparent progress on getting
> Ian's Breaks support merged in
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 04:23:00AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
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> BTW, with the changes to scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl, does something fix
> the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir paths when installing this script?
Yes, the Makefile fixes all the dpkglibdir and pkgdatadir variables during
the build.
So
Hi Esteban,
I had a look at the testsuite.
It basically fulfill my requirements:
* I'm able to read the results of the testsuite
* I'm able to write tests
Just a few things (not really related to the test environment, but more on
the current tests)
* can you mention the dependencies of the
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:11:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> --- orig/policy.sgml
> +++ mod/policy.sgml
> @@ -2716,7 +2716,13 @@
> sort earlier than all the non-letters and so that a tilde
> sorts before anything, even the end of a part. For example,
> the follo
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:04:14AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
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> Is it possible to reduce the memory use of dselect?
There are some patches by Michel Lespinasse on:
http://bugs.debian.org/395140
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Hello,
As promised, I'm bringing back this issue after the release of Etch.
texinfo maintainer's CCed.
Goals
=
* Replace dpkg's install-info by the GNU's install-info
* Ease the recovery of a corrupted info dir fil
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:04:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
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> Have you considered whether the new dpkg triggers feature currently
> being discussed in another thread in debian-dpkg might be helpful ?
> It's intended to be used for this kind of thing. Of course you may
> prefer to press ahead w
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:47:34AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode writes ("Re: Plans for Lenny's install-info"):
> > Make it a new install-info package. All info viewers should depend on the
> > package providing install-info and update-info-dir; 'info' isn't the only
> > info viewe
Hello Ian,
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:41:38AM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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> Well, I don't know if anyone is still interested in this since there was zero
> response to my previous mails, but here's a python version. It actually runs
> a little bit faster than the perl one.
There are still int
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:48:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> On Mit, 16 Mai 2007, Karl Berry wrote:
> > To repeat what I told Norbert back when we were discussing this, I don't
> > think a Perl implementation of install-info will work for GNU.
>
> AFAIUnderstand the perl woul
Hi Norbert,
Just two additional points for the record.
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:39:29AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Debian --section regexp title
This option takes two arguments, which can be a pain for getopt.
And this usage could be confusing. The GNU install-info can also accept
tw
Hi again,
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:08:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On Die, 17 Apr 2007, Nicolas François wrote:
> > + Changes in texinfo
> >- the info package (or a new install-info package) replaces
> > dpkg's install-info
&
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:16:49AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
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> I don't have much problem with roff manpages. Also if they are currently
> considered not readable, that could be improved as well, as an
> alternative. Something else to consider is the po4a interaction.
I don't have much
Hello,
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:01:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> It looks like the only hard part would be finding the *.pot file with
> which to msgmerge.
msgmerge is not necessary. msgcat will take care of merging the two PO
files.
The final merge will be done by make update-po.
Best
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:
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> Time line:
> - inform the maintainers of info-browsers about the fact that they
> should now depend on install-info
> - upload texin
Hello Norbert,
Sorry, I forgot to report my findings.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:36:35PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Nicolas François wrote:
>
> > I will try to review update-info-dir next week.
>
> That would be great, please use the version from
Hi Jörg,
(I'm adding dpkg. See the original mail there:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2009-August/000507.html)
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:47:46AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> [...]
> It will also mean changes to apt-ftparchive, so lets get to the apt
> maintainers:
>
Hello,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:23:23AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 11841 March 1977, Nicolas François wrote:
>
> >> which should be easy enough to output. When such an output file is
> >> configured, the descriptions should no longer get written to the
> >
Hello,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
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> Why not inject the english version in the Translation file for all missing
> translations? That way you download only one Translation file and you have
> the usual behaviour. And you can see programmatically that it's not
Hi Guillem,
GPL-2+ is fine for any of my modifications.
Best Regards,
—
Nicolas
On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:39 PM Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi Joey and Nicolas!
>
> Long time ago the Debconf::Gettext [O] module got imported into the dpkg
> code base [I] with some modifications from Nicolas. The curr
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