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and subject line Re: automake and /usr/share/info/dir.gz
has caused the Debian Bug report #543992,
regarding automake: runs install-info and gets itself into a hole
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Package: automake
Version: 1.11-1
There is a comment in /usr/share/automake-1.11/am/texinfos.am, around
line 210, which says:
## Only run this code if install-info actually exists, and it is not
## the Debian install-info. FIXME: once Debian install-info goes
## away, we can remove this hack. Some versions of Debian install-info
## print their version on stderr (e.g. 1.8.3), other do it in
## on stdout (e.g. 1.10.15).
Now, I'm not quite sure what to do. First off, Debian install-info
has now gone away. But there is now an install-info script which is
simply a wrapper around ginstall-info, which is probably not quite
what we want to do.
What I'm getting with my package is that install-info is cheerfully
creating a dir file, which I really don't want. So my package goes
ahead and installs the info files and creates a dir file, and then
lintian complains.... So I have to manually remove the dir file
before packaging.
I'm really not quite sure what the correct solution to this one is.
Any thoughts?
Julian
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Version: 1.11.2-1
This has long been fixed.
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Eric Dorland <[email protected]>
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