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Merge plan GNU and Debian install-info
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Norbert Preining |
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Merge plan GNU and Debian install-info |
Date: |
Sat, 27 May 2006 17:55:08 +0200 |
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Hi all!
Not that we are completely finished, but the following would be layout
of the transitio:
1) Implementation of the option
--update-dir-from-info-files (or similar)
to GNU i-i. This option should only read all the info files in the
info directory and create a completely new dir file without intermediate
parsing of dir files.
2) Create a temporary Debian i-i which calls GNU i-i with the regexp
argument ignored (warning to the user?)
This can already be done in a new package or within the texinfo
Debian package.
3) Adjust dh_installinfo to call Debian i-i without any special arguments,
ie kill the regexp
4) File bugs and bring all packages to rebuild based on new
debhelper or call install-info without regexp
5) rename ginstall-info to install-info and forget about the old one.
As the regexp argument in Debian i-i was more or less never used
(everyone uses dh_installinfo, which uses it in a trivial way), and the
remove-exactely I haven't seen neither, I would say that no other
cmd-line problems should arise.
ad 1)
this is the hard part, someone has to go through the code and
implement it: only C, nothing else.
ad 2)
this script is already present, could be tested and debugged.
moving the packaging to texinfo shouldn't pose any problems.
ad 3-5)
to be done after 1) and 2).
To be sure I ask again:
- Is this ok with Karl and the texinfo maintainers?
- Is this what the dpkg maintainers have in mind?
- Would we be happy with this?
If all are ok, who can take a shoot at 1 ?
Best wishes
Norbert
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