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

[Ian Zimmerman]

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

Ian> This would not solve the broken parsing problem.

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

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

It comes in because that's what GNU i-i does to find the section.
I want to avoid it completely, be it in Debian or in GNU.  If GNU
wants to keep the existing way and make the new way active dependent
on an option, that's fine for me.  But the new code path should not
intersect with the old.

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