tags 543992 + fixed-upstream
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Hey,
Santiago Vila wrote:
> There is some code in /usr/share/automake-1.11/am/texinfos.am which
> checks whether install-info is "Debian install-info" or not:
[...]
> Now, install-info is GNU install-info, and the "if" will be always true,
[...]
> As a result, packages may
> easily ship /usr/share/info/dir.gz files inside the .deb binary package,
> exactly as it happened in 2003.
Good catch. v1.11.1b~15^2^2 (info: allow user to inhibit
creation/update of '${infodir}/dir', 2011-10-23) will eliminate the
autodetection altogether, replacing it with a new envvar
AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR.
So Debian packages should probably do
export AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no
Maybe this would be worth setting in debhelper or something. If I had
infinite time and hardware, I'd build all packages in the archive that
ship info files with install-info installed to find packages that
might need that setting.
Probably affected[*]:
gcc-h8300-hms bison++ freehdl glame gnubiff gtypist heroes-common
ladcca-bin opencubicplayer rrep yafc
Thanks,
Jonathan
[*]
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=dir.gz&mode=path&suite=unstable&arch=any
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