Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:57:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: The dpkg-iasearch package used to contain a program called dpkg-query. When the dpkg maintainers added a program with the same name, the dpkg-iasearch maintainer renamed his file, without worrying about 'seniority'. I think he

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
I am wondering if we aren't violating the spirit if not the letter of LSB by using a non-standard version of install-info. While of course the LSB says nothing about install-info, the fact that Debian distributes a program under the name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the GNU version

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: I am wondering if we aren't violating the spirit if not the letter of LSB by using a non-standard version of install-info. While of course the LSB says nothing about install-info, the fact that Debian distributes a program

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:19:26PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: As it has been pointed out hundreds of times, it is GNU that distributes a program under then name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the dpkg version. :) (The version in dpkg has seniority.) It's not a matter of seniority,

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:40:02PM +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: As it has been pointed out hundreds of times, it is GNU that distributes a program under then name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the dpkg version. :) (The version in dpkg has seniority.) It's not a matter

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:57:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See debian-dpkg list archives for details.) I am pleased to hear this. -M-

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See debian-dpkg list archives for details.) We have?

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-09-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 05:47:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: Anyway, this discussion is superfluous too, as the dpkg maintainers have already decided to move over to the C, GNU version in the future. (See debian-dpkg list archives for details.) We have? I remember you saying so yourself

install-info and LSB

2002-08-31 Thread Jack Howarth
Has there ever been any discussion of the binary /usr/sbin/install-info in terms of the Linux Standard Base? I ask because dpkg is providing a perl based version of this utility whereas all other distros appear to be using binary only version. This came up because the regex in perl 5.80 is

Re: install-info and LSB

2002-08-31 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote: Has there ever been any discussion of the binary /usr/sbin/install-info in terms of the Linux Standard Base? I ask because dpkg is providing a perl based version of this utility whereas all other distros appear to be using binary only version.