On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:36:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:52:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> The generated file should contain a section like:
> >>
> >> @dircategory Individual utilities
> >> @direntry
> >> * example: (example).
Bill Allombert writes:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:52:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The generated file should contain a section like:
>>
>> @dircategory Individual utilities
>> @direntry
>> * example: (example). An example info directory entry.
>> @end direntry
>>
>> which w
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:52:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert writes:
>
> >> Reading the comment I will assume that debiandoc2info is the only package
> >> that need to be fixed and waive this part. I will also try to get
> >> debiandoc2info fixed.
>
> > Hmm. debiandoc2info is j
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:14:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> --- a/policy.sgml
> >> +++ b/policy.sgml
> >> @@ -8867,7 +8867,10 @@ name ["syshostname"]:
> >> scripts. This is no longer necessary. The insta
Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> --- a/policy.sgml
>> +++ b/policy.sgml
>> @@ -8867,7 +8867,10 @@ name ["syshostname"]:
>> scripts. This is no longer necessary. The installation
>> system now uses dpkg triggers.
>>
>> -
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -8867,7 +8867,10 @@ name ["syshostname"]:
> scripts. This is no longer necessary. The installation
> system now uses dpkg triggers.
>
> - This file must not be included
Bill Allombert writes:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:56:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm happy to add a statement that packages should depend on dpkg (>=
>> 1.15.4) | install-info if they contain info documents. I think that's
>> a reasonable thing to do as part of the transition. Would th
Bill Allombert writes:
>> Reading the comment I will assume that debiandoc2info is the only package
>> that need to be fixed and waive this part. I will also try to get
>> debiandoc2info fixed.
> Hmm. debiandoc2info is just generating a texinfo file and call makeinfo
> on it. makeinfo does not g
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:51:19AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > 4) While I have no technical objection to the 'START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' /
> > > 'END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' bits, currently at least one program generating
> > > info files (debiandoc2info) does not follow them. Packages using it to
> > >
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:56:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert writes:
>
> > 1) As written, the policy change induce maintainers to make changes to
> > their packages that will cause them to have a bug. This is not
> > acceptable.
>
> > 2) As discussed previously, there are ways
Russ Allbery writes:
> Bill Allombert writes:
>> 1) As written, the policy change induce maintainers to make changes to
>> their packages that will cause them to have a bug. This is not
>> acceptable.
>> 2) As discussed previously, there are ways to tweak the process to
>> avoid this bug while
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:54:12PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > 1) As written, the policy change induce maintainers to make changes to their
> > packages that will cause them to have a bug. This is not acceptable.
> >
> > 2) As discussed previousl
Bill Allombert writes:
> 1) As written, the policy change induce maintainers to make changes to
> their packages that will cause them to have a bug. This is not
> acceptable.
> 2) As discussed previously, there are ways to tweak the process to avoid
> this bug while keeping the advantage of this
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 1) As written, the policy change induce maintainers to make changes to their
> packages that will cause them to have a bug. This is not acceptable.
>
> 2) As discussed previously, there are ways to tweak the process to
> avoid this bug while keeping t
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:37:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sven Joachim writes:
>
> > Section 12.2, "Info documents", contains outdated information. Nowadays
> > info files are installed via a dpkg trigger provided by the install-info
> > package, and maintainer scripts should not invoke in
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here's a proposed update to the Policy section on info documents. I'm
> looking for feedback or seconds.
Seconded but:
> + at /usr/share/info/dir on your system and choose
> + the most relevant (or create a new section if none of the
> +
Guillem Jover writes:
> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:37:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> + The install-info program maintains a directory of
>> + installed info documents in /usr/share/info/dir for
>> + the use of info readers.
>> +It was previously necessary for packages insta
Hi!
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:37:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Here's a proposed update to the Policy section on info documents. I'm
> looking for feedback or seconds.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index ffc721f..2a8934a 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -8846,3
Sven Joachim writes:
> Section 12.2, "Info documents", contains outdated information. Nowadays
> info files are installed via a dpkg trigger provided by the install-info
> package, and maintainer scripts should not invoke install-info at all.
> Actually, packages using dh_installinfo will not ca
merge 534638 538665
thanks
Uh, somehow I missed #534638. Sorry for the noise.
Embarrassed,
Sven
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Bug#534638: debian-policy: Section about Info documents needs to be updated
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Section 12.2, "Info documents", contains outdated information. Nowadays
info files are installed via a dpkg trigger provided by the install-info
package, and maintainer scripts should not invoke install-info at all.
Actually, packages using
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