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

[Nicolas François]

Hello,

Just to keep you informed, as every one seems to agree on using the GNU
instal-info in Debian, the plan (discussed a little bit at DebConf) is to
first patch install-info to support the dpkg's install-info options:
i.e. mostly the --section and maybe --remove-exactly (maybe the
behavior of the GNU --remove is sufficient; this has to be checked with
the emacs packages).

For the --section option, the GNU's i-i has one argument, and dpkg's one
takes two arguments.
This will probably be the way we can detect whether we want the GNU's or
dpkg's behavior.

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.

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.


On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:53:23AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Of course! How do we come to a conclusion on this topic? I think it is
> up to the dpkg developer to decide.

AFAIU, they agree.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral