Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> +++ b/ChangeLog >> @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ >> +2011-10-17 Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> >> + >> + For Debian Bug#543992: >> + * lib/am/texinfos.am (install-info-am): When deciding whether to >> + add to an info/dir file, instead of checking for Debian >> + install-info, check if DESTDIR is nonempty. [...] > I must say that I don't like this very much. A better fix IMHO would > be to have an environment variable to inhibit the creation/updating of > the `${infodir}/dir' file Yes, that sounds sensible. It would be better than checking for Debian install-info (because that was insane) and better than the current state (because it gives packagers on all distros an easy way to request inhibiting creation of the ${infodir}/dir file). Keying behavior on $(DESTDIR) left an unpleasant taste in my mouth, too. Thanks for your thoughtfulness.