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

[Ian Zimmerman]

Norbert> But I assume that one can fix the GNU i-i versions parsing that
Norbert> the section search algorithm does not find the description of
Norbert> an entry.

As I wrote in my conversation with Eli: yes, in theory.  In practice,
having lived with this way of doing things for a few years (albeit in
Debian i-i, not GNU), I am doubtful that the problems can be eliminated.

Ian> wants to keep the existing way and make the new way active dependent
Ian> on an option, that's fine for me.  But the new code path should not
Ian> intersect with the old.

Norbert> The new code-path would be
Norbert> - parse the info file and extract the section

Norbert> - write the info into  some sort of config file into a to be specified 
Norbert> directory.

This step is optional.  The info files themselves can serve as the config
repository, although then there's the additional step of deciding which are
the "top" ones holding the metadata.

Norbert> - After this read all the config files and generate a dir file from it.

Yes.

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