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

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all!

On Sam, 27 Mai 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If the DIR file is invalid as far as the Info format is concerned,
> then yes, the code might eventually fail.  But other than that, it is
> not prone to bugs that regular expressions are prone to: i.e., it will
> never catch any context except precisely as specified above.

But wouldn't this make it definitely possible to regenerate the dir file
from all the info files, as I suggested. The only thing we have to make
sure is that the parsing dues not get something wrong *IN A FILE THAT WE
ARE CURRRENTLY CREATING*. So the onyl thing is that GNUi-i created
correct dir files, which I assume.

Best wishes

Norbert

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