On Nov 1 12:07, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >>On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: > >>>>Sounds good to me. I'll repackage within a few days. Thanks. > >>> > >>>We need to make sure that the existing dependencies to texinfo > >>>are still correct afterwards. 22 packages are affected: > >>> > >>> _update-info-dir > >> > >>info > >> > >>> a2ps > >> > >>texinfo-tex > >> > >>> autoconf all of them > >> > >>Not sure this is needed. > >> > >>> automake all of them > >> > >>texinfo, although this is a soft dependency. > >> > >>> cygport > >> > >>info (minimal build environment) > >> > >>> docbook2X > >> > >>texinfo > >> > >>> indent > >> > >>Not sure this is needed either. > > > >The only reason I can think of is that indent comes with an info file > >/usr/share/info/indent.info. But that would mean we'd have to add > >dependencies to the info package for all packages coming with an info > >page. Analog for packages containing man pages a depedeny to man-db. > > > >This might go a bit far, I guess... > > Packages with an info file don't automatically get a dependency on texinfo > (in the current setup). So this must have been done manually by Jari for > some reason. But I think packages with an info file do get an automatic > dependency on _update-info-dir, so that will bring in the new info package. > > In any case, I was thinking the new info package ought to be in the Base > category anyway, for the same reason that man-db is in Base. But I don't > have strong feelings about this.
Sure, info in Base makes sense. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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