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) 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 ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org