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


From: Norbert Preining
Subject: Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:50:22 +0200
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Hi Karl!

On Son, 21 Mai 2006, Nicolas François wrote:
> I intent to make the patch, but won't be connected until the end of the
> month, so if somebody wants to do it, please do.

I take a look, but I have a conference at the end of the month, so my
time is limited ...

> What I think has to be done for --section is:
>  * detect if there are 2 arguments to the --section option
>  * detect if this second argument is a file
>    ("install-info --section section info-file dir-file" is a GNU install-info
>    command line, it should not be taken as a dpkg command line:
>    "install-info --section regex section info-file")
> Of course if a file exists with the same name as the section, this
> algorithm doesn't work. But it doesn't seems to happen according to my dir
> file.

Karl, what do you think. Would this be acceptable to be merged into
install-info?

Best wishes

Norbert

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