On 10/23/2011 01:26 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
On Sunday 23 October 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
On Monday 17 October 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
+++ b/ChangeLog
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+2011-10-17 Jonathan Nieder<jrnie...@gmail.com>
+
+ For Debian Bug#543992:
+ * lib/am/texinfos.am (install-info-am): When deciding whether to
+ add to an info/dir file, instead of checking for Debian
+ install-info, check if DESTDIR is nonempty.
[...]
I must say that I don't like this very much. A better fix IMHO would
be to have an environment variable to inhibit the creation/updating of
the `${infodir}/dir' file
Yes, that sounds sensible. It would be better than checking for
Debian install-info (because that was insane) and better than the
current state (because it gives packagers on all distros an easy way
to request inhibiting creation of the ${infodir}/dir file).
Keying behavior on $(DESTDIR) left an unpleasant taste in my mouth,
too. Thanks for your thoughtfulness.
Glad we agree :-)
OK, your are forcing me to pronounce my disagreement.
Making package building sensitive to environment variables contradicts
the working principles of autoconf: Building packages is supposed to
examinine the system and to decide upon what to do.
Here is my proposed patch (for maint). I will push in 72 hours if there
is no objection or review by then.
Then: Veto.
Ralf
