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

[Norbert Preining]

On Sam, 27 Mai 2006, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

Well, no and yes. It would solve the problem of the messed DIR file, as
we recreate it always from scratch. And if there is a problem it is
house made by us, or GNU i-i.

If you speak about the parsing of info files (but you dind't as far as I
see), then yes, if an info file is messed up, then we are in trouble.
But this should also be handled by GNU i-i.

So I don't see where the problem of parsing the DIR file comes in? Ok,
assume someone has messed up our info file. Call update-info-dir and the
messed up file is gone, forever, recreated.

I think I must have missed something. I go and read Debian install-info
bugs ;-)

> 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.

Even better. Let's get rid of it.

> 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.

;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

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