On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:46:53 +0100 Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > > The packages themselves have the Emdebian version string (em[0-9]) suffix > > but have > > no changes to the maintainer scripts (to maintain compatibility with > > Debian). > > > > To simplify Grip installations, install-info needs to not halt the > > installation of > > a package merely because the info document has been removed from the > > package. A > > warning or message is not needed either - users of Emdebian Grip know that > > info > > documents and manpages are not going to exist in the Grip packages. > > Retaining binary > > compatibility with Debian does mean that individual packages can be > > installed from > > Debian where the user wants to have the extra files and apt-pinning can do > > the rest. > > > > update-alternatives has now gained this support and it would be much > > appreciated if > > install-info could be quiet about missing info documents whilst still > > supporting > > those Debian packages that the user may still wish to install. > > The plan is always to get rid of install-info inside dpkg, so asking us > for this change is not the right long-term solution. (And contrary to > update-alternatives, I don't think such a change make sense) Any timescales? Will the package containing install-info become Priority: required or will all packages using info documents need to be changed to check for install-info in their postinsts? > I would really suggest that you design a solution that doesn't require > the postinst snippet at all. A simple solution could be: > - have a package "install-info" register a file trigger on > /usr/share/install-info/ > - have other packages provide a .install-info file in that directory that > tells how install-info should be called > - add a dh_installinfo helper to automatize the installation of this file > - have info readers depend on the new install-info package > > Opinions ? One thing I cannot do is modify the relevant debian/rules of the packages concerned because Grip does not rebuild any packages, in order to retain binary compatibility with Debian. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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