Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info

[Ian Zimmerman]

Norbert> But if we want this, do we need a merge at all???

Norbert> Couldn't Debian write something like update-info-dir and
Norbert> dh_installinfo does in fact nothing besides putting the info
Norbert> files into the right directory and adds a call to
Norbert> update-info-dir to the postinst script.

Norbert> THe funtion update-info-dir would kill the current dir file,
Norbert> and call GNU install-info for every info file present. This way
Norbert> we would be sure that nobody messes up the dir file. And if,
Norbert> then it was GNU I-I.

Sigh.  Nobody seems to read my posts or at least understand what I mean.
Except Ian Jackson :-)

This would not solve the broken parsing problem.

Norbert> Disadvantage - we have to get rid of this regexp option -

Which presently doesn't seem to work at all.  Try it.  Look at the bugs
I cited up in the thread.  By numbers.

Norbert> rebuild of all packages using info files?

Yes, transition is the only nontrivial part (apart from politics).
Ian left it as an exercise for the reader, and it's a damn hard one.

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