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Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info
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Ian Zimmerman |
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Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info |
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Wed, 24 May 2006 18:00:38 -0700 (PDT) |
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Karl> Hi Ian, (Did you bcc me? I doubt I am on debian-dpkg :)
No, according to my records I To'd you :-)
Ian> For everyone here, the main problem seem to be the Debian vs. GNU
Ian> fork. But for me, the main problem is the bugs.
Karl> Well, resolving the fork will presumably only help with being able
Karl> to then address the bugs to benefit the most people.
Right. I have a hard time waiting for the merge to complete.
Ian> require every info file passed to install-info to contain the full
Ian> metadata, including INFO-DIR-SECTION.
Karl> Sounds good, in theory.
Karl> In practice, how many currently-installed info files lack
Karl> INFO-DIR-SECTION?
Good question, and easy to answer with a simple script, at least relative
to the packages I have installed. I'll do that within a few days.
Karl> What else do you think we should require?
Everything necessary for the installation of a menu entry. I guess it's
all within INFO-DIR-ENTRY, isn't it?
Ian> The other way is to keep some kind of simple database on the side
Ian> which install-info first updates
Karl> Adding another database which has to be kept in sync (and which
Karl> inevitably will go out of sync and then has to be recovered from)
Karl> seems like more trouble to me, not less.
The idea is that it wouldn't be "another" one, but _the_ authoritative one
from which the visually formatted infodir file could always be re-derived.
It wouldn't be visible to end users, and packages would interact with it
through a narrow interface (ie. the revamped install-info). So the chance
of it going somehow bad would be much, much smaller than with the visible
dir file.
Karl> Can you include address@hidden (and whatever on the Debian
Karl> side) in future mail?
Sure, and also including myself because Mail-Copies-To doesn't seem to be
operative on the list.
--
A true pessimist won't be discouraged by a little success.
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info,
Ian Zimmerman <=
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Karl Berry, 2006/05/25
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Ian Zimmerman, 2006/05/25
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Karl Berry, 2006/05/26
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Ian Zimmerman, 2006/05/26
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Karl Berry, 2006/05/26
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Ian Zimmerman, 2006/05/26
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/27
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Ian Zimmerman, 2006/05/27
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/27
- Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info, Norbert Preining, 2006/05/27