On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > > This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is > > GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named > > /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before. > > Note that lintian catches that: > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-info-dir-file.html
Yes, I've used that page to send three patches today. > And hopefully ftpmasters will use this tag once they start auto-rejecting > packages based on (some) lintian checks. > > > I'm going to fix my packages by patching Makefile.in so that it reads > > "@if false; then \", which is simple and effective, and avoids a > > "Build-Conflicts: install-info", but I believe this is actually a > > problem in automake, see Bug#543992 for details. > > Why don't you simply remove the file in debian/rules? Because I feel the file should not be there to begin with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org